IPv6 support

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Wednesday, July 04 2018, Ashutosh Pal wrote:

> Hi Experts,
>
> Could anyone please confirm if gdb today has support for connecting to
> IPv6 RSP targets? In the code (7.12), I still see references to old
> API's like gethostbyname(..) etc. and no use of types like
> sockaddr_in6 etc. Searching over internet, I found the following mail
> thread talking about a patch for supporting IPv6:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-02/msg00253.html
>
> Is this patch or any other fixes related to IPv6 included in any latest gdb releases?

FWIW, the patch has been recently pushed upstream.  Unfortunately it
won't be present in the 8.2 release, but you can always compile GDB.

Thanks,

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