[PATCH] Implement IPv6 support for GDB/gdbserver

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Fri Jun 8 19:28:00 GMT 2018


On 06/08/2018 07:44 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:

>> Jan's first patch (back in 2006) implementing IPv6 also duplicated code
>> on gdbreplay.  I admit I may have read too much between the lines here,
>> but I just assumed that this was just the way things were.
>>
>>>> at least that's what I understood from our
>>>> archives/documentation.  I did not feel confident reworking gdbreplay to
>>>> make it "modern", so I decided to implement things "the old way".
>>> Seems like adding to technical debt to be honest.  Did you hit some
>>> unsurmountable problem, or would just a little bit of fixing here and
>>> there be doable?
>> I don't know if it's unsurmountable.  I know I had trouble getting i18n
>> and trying to include a few headers here and there, but I haven't tried
>> very hard to work around it.  I just decided to "add to the technical
>> debt".
>>
>> I'll take a better look at this.
> Thanks.

I took a quick look at it.  I'll send a patch.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves



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