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Add in NEWS about dropping AIX 7.1 support.

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Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath March 20, 2026, 12:15 p.m. UTC 
  From: Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <aditya.kamath1@ibm.com>

The minimum supported version of AIX for GDB will be 7.2 TL5 as mentioned in the below link.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-support-lifecycle-information
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 gdb/NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Comments

Ulrich Weigand March 23, 2026, 2:52 p.m. UTC | #1 
Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <akamath996@gmail.com> wrote:

>+* Removed targets and native configurations 
>+
>+  GDB no longer supports AIX 7.1.  The minimum supported
>+  AIX version is now AIX 7.2 TL5.  GDB will only support
>+  DWARF debugging in AIX, going forward.

This is OK.

Thanks,
Ulrich
Aditya Kamath March 24, 2026, 3:38 a.m. UTC | #2 
Thank Ulrich.

I have pushed the same.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=c116c67be27fad91095a2bb13bc0bd48f4e4d623

Have a nice day ahead.

Thanks and regards,
Aditya.

From: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
Date: Monday, 23 March 2026 at 8:22 PM
To: akamath996@gmail.com <akamath996@gmail.com>, tom@tromey.com <tom@tromey.com>, simon.marchi@polymtl.ca <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, SANGAMESH MALLAYYA <sangamesh.swamy@in.ibm.com>, Aditya Kamath <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add in NEWS about dropping AIX 7.1 support.

Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <akamath996@gmail.com> wrote:

>+* Removed targets and native configurations
>+
>+  GDB no longer supports AIX 7.1.  The minimum supported
>+  AIX version is now AIX 7.2 TL5.  GDB will only support
>+  DWARF debugging in AIX, going forward.

This is OK.

Thanks,
Ulrich
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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index e46a5108272..b23109d883d 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -237,6 +237,12 @@  qExecAndArgs
      deprecated since GDB 10.  Users who need to control the size of a
      memory port's internal buffer can use the 'setvbuf' procedure.
 
+* Removed targets and native configurations 
+
+  GDB no longer supports AIX 7.1.  The minimum supported
+  AIX version is now AIX 7.2 TL5.  GDB will only support
+  DWARF debugging in AIX, going forward.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 17
 
 * Debugging Linux programs that use x86-64 or x86-64 with 32-bit pointer