IIUC it is a pre-requisite for IPv6 support, some UNICes do not support
getaddrinfo required for IPv6. But coincidentally such UNICes are no longer
really supported by GDB. Therefore it was concluded we can remove all such
UNICes and then we can implement IPv6 easily with getaddrinfo.
In mail
Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts? [Re: [PATCH v2] Add IPv6 support for remote TCP connections]
Message-ID: <20140211034157.GG5485@adacore.com>
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-02/msg00333.html
Joel said:
So I chose HP-UX first for this patch.
gdb/ChangeLog
2014-10-16 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Remove HPUX.
* Makefile.in (ALL_64_TARGET_OBS): Remove ia64-hpux-tdep.o.
(ALL_TARGET_OBS): Remove hppa-hpux-tdep.o, solib-som.o and solib-pa64.o.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Remove solib-som.h, inf-ttrace.h, solib-pa64.h and
ia64-hpux-tdep.h, solib-ia64-hpux.h.
(ALLDEPFILES): Remove hppa-hpux-tdep.c, hppa-hpux-nat.c,
ia64-hpux-nat.c, ia64-hpux-tdep.c, somread.c and solib-som.c.
* config/djgpp/fnchange.lst: Remove hppa-hpux-nat.c and
hppa-hpux-tdep.c.
* config/ia64/hpux.mh: Remove file.
* config/pa/hpux.mh: Remove file.
* configure: Rebuilt.
* configure.ac (dlgetmodinfo, somread.o): Remove.
* configure.host (hppa*-*-hpux*, ia64-*-hpux*): Make them obsolete.
(ia64-*-hpux*): Remove its float format exception.
* configure.tgt (hppa*-*-hpux*, ia64-*-hpux*): Make them obsolete.
* hppa-hpux-nat.c: Remove file.
* hppa-hpux-tdep.c: Remove file.
* hppa-tdep.c (struct hppa_unwind_info, struct hppa_objfile_private):
Move them here from hppa-tdep.h
(hppa_objfile_priv_data, hppa_init_objfile_priv_data): Make it static.
(hppa_frame_prev_register_helper): Remove HPPA_FLAGS_REGNUM exception.
* hppa-tdep.h (struct hppa_unwind_info, struct hppa_objfile_private):
Move them to hppa-tdep.c.
(hppa_objfile_priv_data, hppa_init_objfile_priv_data): Remove
declarations.
* ia64-hpux-nat.c: Remove file.
* ia64-hpux-tdep.c: Remove file.
* ia64-hpux-tdep.h: Remove file.
* inf-ttrace.c: Remove file.
* inf-ttrace.h: Remove file.
* solib-ia64-hpux.c: Remove file.
* solib-ia64-hpux.h: Remove file.
* solib-pa64.c: Remove file.
* solib-pa64.h: Remove file.
* solib-som.c: Remove file.
* solib-som.h: Remove file.
* somread.c: Remove file.
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