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Re: Submission of a new gdb port
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Submission of a new gdb port
- From: Orjan Friberg <orjan dot friberg at axis dot com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 16:12:41 +0100
- CC: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Axis Communications AB
- References: <39D837F0.9E376923@axis.com> <3A0002D9.2BAD4903@cygnus.com>
Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> Some parts of a GDB release are part of GDB but some are not. BFD, for
> instance, is really part of binutils so changes to that go to the
> binutils@sources.cygnus.com mailing list. Top level changes are
> discussed in src/MAINTAINERS.
>
Luckily enough, the binutils changes are already in place. (FYI: the
names used are 'cris' for the architecture, 'etrax' for the processor
(family) and 'axis' for the company.)
> > * How stable is the multi-arch framework? Are there any catches
> > switching to it? (Will multi-arching allow me to debug APIs that only
> > differ in their respective sizes of a double?)
>
> Definitly useable. Many targets have basicly converted, and yes, it
> lets you do things like change the size of a double (and a lot more
> :-). The MIPS target knows how to debug well over 30 different ISA/ABI
> combinations....
>
Ok, I read in the 68hc11 thread that a new port must be multi-arched, so
I'll get started with that, and then submit the first batch of patches.
(I also have some cleaning up to do, like reformatting according to the
gnu coding standards, getting rid of
any remaining PARAMS, and protoizing (right?).)
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Orjan Friberg E-mail: orjan.friberg@axis.com
Axis Communications AB Phone: +46 46 272 17 68