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Re: Obsolete GDB's m32r support
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at tooth dot toronto dot redhat dot com>
- To: cagney at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:06:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: Obsolete GDB's m32r support
Hi -
> > Can you summarize the technical reasons for this dichotomy of
> > outcomes? In what way does the presence of old targets pose a
> > technical challenge to more modern multiarch'd ones? In other words,
> > what technical reasons exist to not allow old targets to stick around
> > as they are?
>
> The rationale for this move has been discussed on a number of occasions
> in the past, can I recommend a quick search through the e-mail archives
> and a review of that previous debate.
A quick search resulted only in (valid) descriptions of multi-arch
superiority, and dicta that old targets shall convert or die. It
didn't answer my question above. Perhaps you could spare time for
a more specific pointer?
- FChE