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Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Paul Fertser <fercerpav at gmail dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, ktietz at redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:41:57 +0400
- Subject: Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]
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- References: <20140209172855 dot GA27131 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <1392033768-16793-1-git-send-email-fercerpav at gmail dot com> <831tzavrhw dot fsf at gnu dot org> <20140210170244 dot GO2320 at home dot lan> <83vbwmuaj8 dot fsf at gnu dot org> <20140210195758 dot GA16956 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net>
> > > ``This function is missing on some platforms: HP-UX 11.11, IRIX 6.5,
> > > OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 7, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS''
[...]
> As discussed off-list with Tom recently changing subject and getaddrinfo
> should be available even without gnulib. (The patch code itself still needs
> a review.) If some host does not have getaddrinfo its maintainer should say
> so.
In addition to Eli's list of unsupported targets, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF are
probably de facto unmaintained, at this point. Same for Solaris 7 which
is ancient ancient ancient, and no longer supported by its vendor.
We should probably send an announcement if we ever implement a change
we know might be breaking some platforms, though.
--
Joel