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Re: [patch/rfc] Don't complain about unknown OSABI
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Next question. Given an unbranded mips-elf binary, what should the
> following GDB's do?
>
> gdb
"unknown"
> mips-linux-gnu-gdb
"GNU/Linux"
> linux-gnu-gdb
"GNU/Linux"
> m68k-linux-gnu-gdb
"You lose."
> mips-netbsd-gdb
"NetBSD ELF"
> mips-gdb
"unknown"
> elf-gdb
"unknown" assuming there is MIPS support, else "You lose."
> Having the behavour key off the target creates a problem with an
> identical executable behaving differently with different, but similar
> GDBs. I suspect it will encourage people to build different GDB's for
> identical purposes when just a single GDB is needed.
The target name merely specifies a default. If they want to force it
to a certain ABI always, they can put "set osabi ..." in their setup
file.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>