Re: patch to add QNX NTO i386 support

["Kris Warkentin" <kewarken@qnx.com>]

> > Suggest separating the GDB stuff out (native, target, remote) and using
> > separate e-mail threads to discuss each.
> >
> >
> > I was going to but it's easier this way.
> >
> > It isn't for the person doing the review -> the easier the reviewer's
life is, the quicker (well, ok, in theory :-/) the reviewer should be. I'd
strongly focus on getting the cross debugger (--target=i386-unknown-nto)
integrated into GDB, and then worry above the native.
> >
> >>  The native nto-procfs.c makes use
> >> of some of the code in remote-qnx.c and remote-qnx-<target>.c (we still
have
> >> four more targets.)  If you really feel it's necessary I could do the
work
> >> but I had started on it and concluded it would either lead to a lot of
> >> duplicated code or an explosion of files.
> >
> > That looks like a design problem.  The common code should likely be
moved to something like nto-tdep.c.  What exactly is common?
>
> Er, s/design/structural/

Yeah...  That would have implied some design in the first place.  ;-)  This
port is a totally organic thing, grown in the fertilizer of many developers
over the years.  That's what makes it so much fun to clean up.  I'm trying
to make a snarled, weedy garden into a bonzai.

Kris