Re: Xtensa port

[Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:10 -0700, Maxim Grigoriev wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Thanks much for the quick response.
> > At a quick first glance, it looks pretty good.
> > Do you have a copyright assignment on file
> >   
> Once in a while, Daniel Jacobowitz mentioned that he has all the 
> necessary paper work for Xtensa port. I hope it still true.
> > One question -- is there a reason for splitting xtensa-config.c 
> > into a separate file?  Not necessarily a problem, but it seems
> > to be mostly stuff that would traditionally go in the xxx-tdep.c
> > file (such as the struct gdbarch_tdep object).
> >   
> It's because Xtensa is all about configurability. Historically, 
> Tensilica uses a special configuration called FSF for all our FSF 
> submissions. It's been used for Xtensa GCC and BFD work. Now, I'm trying 
> to use it for GDB. So when we have to deal with a different 
> configuration of the Xtensa processor all we need is to update 
> xtensa-config.c file.

Ah, but that's what we have a thing called multi-arch for!

Wouldn't you rather have a single gdb that could debug *any* 
of your xtensa configurations (as opposed to having to build
a separate gdb for each one)?