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Re: Is anyone using the HP compilers on PA-RISC with FSF GDB?
- From: Albert Chin <gdb at mlists dot thewrittenword dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 00:00:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: Is anyone using the HP compilers on PA-RISC with FSF GDB?
- References: <4405B9C0.90505@tausq.org> <20060802025530.GA32090@nevyn.them.org>
- Reply-to: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:55:30PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> I have a question, though, which I think I've asked before. GCC on
> HP/UX uses stabs, so only requires basic SOM support from GDB. That
> should be in decent shape still. But the stuff read by hpread.c is
> only generated by the HP compilers (cc and aCC).
>
> - Are these compilers still important for C?
> - Are these compilers still important for C++?
We use them to build most of the free software we provide for our
customers.
> I have not heard from any users of the FSF GDB with the HP compilers in
> a long time; for HP-specific features, I suspect more people use HP's
> WDB fork of GDB. If no one is using the HP support, I would like to
> remove it from the next release of GDB.
We ship GDB for all platforms except HP-UX, where we ship HP's WDB.
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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)