Is anyone using the HP compilers on PA-RISC with FSF GDB?

[Albert Chin]

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)