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[HEADS UP] SPARC branch coming to mainline
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, gdb-announce at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:11:16 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: [HEADS UP] SPARC branch coming to mainline
Folks,
I've spent the last few days on the rough edges of my SPARC branch.
There are still some improvements to be made, but I can do those
better with things integrated into mainline. So I intend to move
things over to mainline this weekend.
The new code includes support for the following platforms:
sparc-*-* SPARC (a.out/COFF/ELF/etc.)
sparc-*-linux* 32-bit GNU/Linux
sparc-*-netbsd* NetBSD/sparc
sparc-*-solaris2* 32-bit Solaris 2
sparc64-*-* UltraSPARC (a.out/COFF/ELF/etc.)
sparc64-*-freebsd* FreeBSD/sparc64
sparc64-*-linux* 64-bit GNU/Linux
sparc64-*-netbsd* NetBSD/sparc64
sparc64-*-solaris2* 64-bit Solaris 7, 8, 9
sparcv9-*-soalris2* 64-bit Solaris 7, 8, 9
NetBSD/sparc64 and 64-bit GNU/Linux haven't received the extensive
testing that the other platforms have. However, "break main, run"
works, and probably a lot more than that. I also haven't tested an
embedded target.
For the generic sparc-*-* and sparc64-*-*, there is only target
support. For the others there is full target, host and native
support.
As a result of the merge, support for the following platforms will be
lost:
sparc-*-lynxos* LynxOS
sparc-*-sunos4* SunOS 4
It looks like there haven't been any LynxOS releases for SPARC for
quite some time now; the LynuxWorks website doesn't mention it except
for a press release from 1995. It shouldn't be too hard to revive
SunOS 4; most of the code should be there.
Mark