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Re: [RFC] Making target layers into a real stack
- To: "John S. Kallal" <jskallal at home dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Making target layers into a real stack
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:42:26 -0400
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com,Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>,Mark Kettenis <kettenis at science dot uva dot nl>
- References: <01062017044600.01102@CyberMax> <3B3C0E2E.7040508@cygnus.com> <01071015192100.00894@CyberMax>
> You are looking for a lot a work. If you can not give me more detailed
> design information or example system to work from that would meet you
> received your OK, any work by me is just a waste time.
Yes, I know this would be a lot of work.
>> This is a long way from what we have now :-/
>>
>> I suspect that the best thing to do is to address the immediate problems
>> in lin-lwp.c and then, later the more fundamental change can follow.
>
>
> My target layers patch was trying to address the immediate problems of
> the lin-lwp.c! For me the major problem is lin-lwp.c functions making direct
> calls to the child_target functions even when the child_target is not
> currently installed in the target stack.
Can this be addressed local to lin-wpc.c? That is what I was trying to
suggest.
Hmm, how well does lin-lwp.c work when host!=target. I guess you're
working out the case where local and remote are the same.
Andrew