Re: [patch] Remove HAVE_UINTPTR_T from gdb_thread_db.h

[Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 13:40 +0800, Yao Qi wrote:
> On 05/15/2011 01:07 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> >> When I am trying to move gdb_thread_db.h to common/ dir,
> > 
> > I am so sorry for not having the time to work on this project,
> > and so it make me uncomfortable saying this without offering
> > advice, but I still feel uncomfortable about not having a clear
> > plan, and not knowing where we are going with this. I'm afraid
> > that the end result might be a tighter inter-dependency between
> > GDB and GDBserver instead of GDB and GDBserver sitting on top
> > of a common API (we could call it a mini libgdb).
> 
> I wrote up plan in wiki http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Common .  I am
> not good at naming a project, so I name it as "Common" temporally.
> 
> The plan is not done.  I will complete it, and fill in with more details.
> 
> Comments are welcome, and thanks in advance to put up with my writing.

I'm not familiar with gdbserver but would it make sense to make
gdbserver internally use the target_ops vector? That would make GDB's
-nat.c files usable without modification in gdbserver. Then it would be
a matter of porting the gdbserver's additional features which GDB native
doesn't have.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center