Re: [cdt-debug-dev] CDT Debug/GDB API change/churn (post 2.0)

[Leon Pollak <leonp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 10:38, Johan Walles wrote:
> Lott, Jeremiah wrote:
> >>First point:
> >> Should we drop support for gdb-5.2.x and require the CDT/GDB/MI to be
> >> at least 6.x ?
> >
> > We would be opposed to this.  We already get complaints that 5.2.x is
> > too stringent a requirement (people want to use even older versions of
> > gdb).
>
> Just out of curiosity, why can't people upgrade their gdbs?

Because there are many specific gdb modifications/patches which were made for 
the old versions. Their upgrade is sometimes not a trivial task which 
somebody must do and this "somebody" is still looked for...:-))
For example, I use gdb with BDM interface to the MPC860 CPU, it exist for 5.3 
but not higher. And it works fine! :-)

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Leon M.Pollak
leonp at plris dot com