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Re: [rfc] [11/18] Cell multi-arch: Target description <compatible> infrastructure
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:08:21 +0300
- Subject: Re: [rfc] [11/18] Cell multi-arch: Target description <compatible> infrastructure
- References: <200809072115.m87LF11x002403@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:15:01 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
>
> doc/ChangeLog:
>
> * gdb.texinfo (Target Descriptions): Document <compatible> element.
This part is okay, with the following comments:
> +@var{arch} is an architecture name from the same selection
> +accepted by @code{set architecture} (@pxref{Targets, ,Specifying a
> +Debugging Target}).
I don't understand the purpose of "the same" here. Same as what?
> For example, on the
> +Cell Broadband Engine, the main architecture is @code{powerpc:common}
> +or @code{powerpc:common64}, but the system is able to run binaries
> +in the @code{spu} architecture as well.
This begs a continuation:
The way to describe this capability with @samp{<compatible>} is as
follows:
@smallexample
...
@end smallexample
Thanks.