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[RFC] HP-UX native support
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at gnu dot org>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:26:39 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: [RFC] HP-UX native support
One of the black pages in GDB's history is what is usually referred to
as the HP merge. It's what brought us real support for modern HP-UX,
and included nifty features such as follow-fork and such.
Unfortunately the changes didn't fit in very well with the structure
of GDB in those days. We still suffer from the consequences.
Since then, the HP-UX specific code has seen very little maintenance,
and while I appreciate the efforts of Joel and Randolph to fix things,
I think some more radical changes are needed.
In my tree I have some changes that implement fresh new inf-ptrace.c
based native support for HP-UX 10.20. It does away with all the nifty
features mentioned above, and leaves us with something more
traditional. However, I think it'll make maintenance much easier, and
to be honest, I really doubt whether the nifty features still work.
How do people feel about this?
Mark