RE: GDB for multiple targets

["Marc Khouzam" <marc dot khouzam at ericsson dot com>]

> From: Ulrich Weigand [mailto:uweigand@de.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:11 PM
>
> Except for the target architecture (which is already provided as
> part of the target description) and the osabi, the only remaining
> feature that falls back to a compile-time default is the target
> byte order (as far as I can see).  Now, the byte order fallback
> is only used if the endianness cannot be determined from the
> executable file being debugged, so this should be a rare case.
> However, it would certainly make sense to allow the target to
> provide byte order information in the target description as well.

When using the 'attach' command to debug a process, GDB is able to 
find the executable automatically.  So, I don't actually use the 'file'
command in those cases.  Would GDB still be able to determine the
endianness in those cases?

thanks
Marc