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Re: Makefile setting
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Makefile setting
- From: Stephane dot Bihan at arccores dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:33:01 +0100
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
> > the ARC supported implementation of gdb we are trying to achieve is
> > "extensible".
> > The register description is minimal in the sense that only the basecase
> > registers are described in REGISTER_NAMES.
> > This description is updated (more registers are added) when we connect to
the
> > simulator.
>
> Hmm, I'd suggest investigating the multi-arch framework. It better
> handles things like an architecture suddenly deciding it needs to be
> changed. A target can also forced multi-arch to re-select its
> architecture if needed.
>
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/papers/multi-arch/
>
> For the register extensions, are they known by arcExtMap or are they
> obtained from the target?
>
They are extracted from the object file.
Thanks anyway for the paper.
Stephane.