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Re: [patch] [sim] --disable-sim on ppc* by default (for AIX) [Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts?]
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:51:37 +0400
- Subject: Re: [patch] [sim] --disable-sim on ppc* by default (for AIX) [Re: getaddrinfo available on all GDB hosts?]
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- References: <20140210195758 dot GA16956 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <20140211034157 dot GG5485 at adacore dot com> <20140211200456 dot GA22728 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <20140212030012 dot GO5485 at adacore dot com> <20140212120945 dot GA2109 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <20140213073726 dot GU5485 at adacore dot com> <20140213104347 dot GA27475 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <52FCA3A6 dot 3060408 at redhat dot com> <20140213110449 dot GA28469 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net> <52FCAF01 dot 3040104 at redhat dot com>
> > (2) The ppc sim target is useless. Therefore it wastes time of people trying
> > to use it.
We use the ppc builtin simulator routinely as well. It's just an issue
of building it on AIX, which apparently doesn't work out of the box.
Not needing it on AIX, AdaCore just configures GDB with --disable-sim
as Jan just figured out.
--
Joel