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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Implement ptrace target vector inheritance
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 04:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c493ce$Blat.v2.2.2$4f8cf380@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <413B1E60.9060506@gnu.org> (message from Andrew Cagney on Sun, 05 Sep 2004 10:10:40 -0400)

> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 10:10:40 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
> The current native code constructs its target vector using a convoluted 
> combination of #ifdefs and global functions.
> 
> This patch replaces all that with what is effectively a runtime 
> inheritance structure:
> 
> 	inf-ptrace is-a inf-child is-a target
> 
> I've updated/tested NetBSD/PPC, with a tweak to nbsdppc-nat. that 
> further extends the above with:
> 
> 	nbsdppc-nat is-a inf-ptrace
> 
> there were no regressions.
> 
> The intent is for all natives to eventually migrate to this.
> 
> Comments?

My comments are:

  (1) Let's have this machinery documented in gdbint.texinfo.
  (2) The patch introduces a couple of user commands (like `udot')
      that should be documented in gdb.texinfo.
  (3) Several hunks in the patch do not belong to it: they are merely
      whitespace adjustments.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-06  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-05 14:11 Andrew Cagney
2004-09-06  4:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-09-06 13:51   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-09-12 13:04 ` Andrew Cagney

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