Re: GDB for ARC (was Re: ARC-insight questions)

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> Rich,
>
> This is really a question for the GDB folks.  There was never any
> ARC-specific part of Insight.  Insight simply runs on top of GDB.  It
> was GDB that dropped support for ARC.

Yes.

The ARC was made obsolete just prior to GDB 5.3:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-announce/2002/msg00010.html.
Noises about this started to be made prior to GDB 5.2:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-01/msg00026.html.

You're more than welcome to revive it.  Just remember that it will be 
treated as a new port and as such has the following acceptance criteria:

- an FSF assignment
Contact me for details.
- comply with gnu coding standards
Recommend running gdb/gdb_indent.sh on the file
- free of GDB related coding problems - deprecated code, strict ISO C, 
... The ari helps http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/ari.
- pure multi-arch

Andrew


> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:24, Rich DAddio wrote:
>
> > Martin,
> > I am currently maintaining GCC for the ARC platform. I currently have a
> > toolchain GCC-3.2.3, newlib-1.11.0, binutils-2.13.1.
> >
> > I have had private email with Nick Clifton at Redhat regarding the
> > maintainence of binutils and I plan on having a web site up soon to support
> > the ARC and GNU software.
> >
> > In mail from Date: 19 May 2003, regarding Insight you said that support for
> > the ARC was dropped. Do you have any details on this? If so is there any way
> > to turn this around? I'd like to keep GDB and ARC up-to-date with the other
> > pieces I have cobbled together.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Rich d