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Re: What's with all the Cisco stuff?
- To: jtc@redback.com
- Subject: Re: What's with all the Cisco stuff?
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:37:54 +1000
- CC: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <5md7wv2aif.fsf@jtc.redbacknetworks.com>
"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
>
> What's the deal with all the Cisco-specific stuff ending up in GDB?
I'll ignore the politics :-)
At a technical level, the ``cisco-stuff'' highlights a limitation of the
current target vector - you can't build up a true target stack. (To get
a knife out, here I'm not talking about that *(&!@)$(& strata tha
currently exists in GDB :-)
The CISCO code should be implemented as a sequence:
o open the target using generic ``remote.c''.
o create a new target that passes through most
requests but every so often interseeds an
operation with a cisco specific on.
Re-vamping that code, isn't trivial - I looked at it doing some fixes
for the the d10v target. At the time I backed away.
At present the task sits in my input stack :-(
Andrew