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Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Paul Fertser <fercerpav at gmail dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:35:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:41:57 +0100, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > > ``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.
Do you mean IRIX host or both IRIX host and target?
Implementing IPv6 in gdbserver will make IRIX incompatible even as a target.
I am asking as I have seen for example yours:
commit 1324a0d9b562a38f4ce23c8835e1dacbbe3b51b9
Author: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Date: Tue Nov 23 01:06:08 2010 +0000
support for mips-irix on-stack trampolines
[...]
Jan