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Re: delete target dbug/picobug/dink32/m32r/mon2000 ?
- From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at google dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 11:58:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: delete target dbug/picobug/dink32/m32r/mon2000 ?
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> All of these targets use gdb/monitor.c, which has bit rotted
> years ago (I'd guess around ~6), and nobody seems to
> have noticed.
>
> I propose deleting them (along with monitor.c):
>
> | target | source |
> |----------------+----------------------|
> | target dbug | gdb/dbug-rom.c |
> | target picobug | gdb/microblaze-rom.c |
> | target dink32 | gdb/dink32-rom.c |
> | target m32r | gdb/m32r-rom.c |
> | target mon2000 | gdb/m32r-rom.c |
I agree, that's an infrastructure whose time has come and gone. (Not
much call for traditional ROM monitors when one can just as easily
boot to a real OS instead!) We would see references to people using
monitor backends from time to time, but I haven't seen any mentions
(with either new or old GDBs) in several years.
Stan