Re: [patch/in] Add (broken) hppa-elf target

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 08:03:02PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:27:56 -0400
>    From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
> 
>    PS: To give you a headache :-)  Even though a native i386-ibm-aix won't 
>    build, there is a good chance that an i386-ibm-aix host will build an 
>    i386-ibm-aix cross debugger.  This is correct behavour because a cross 
>    debugger should be buildable on any host :-)
> 
> Yup.  Except that --target=i386-ibm-aix won't give you exactly a
> i386-ibm-aix cross-debuger.  It will give you the same generic i386
> cross-debuger as --target=i386-elf or --target=i386-whatever-junk.
> Suppose i386-ibm-aix had a rather peculiar ABI that's really
> incompatible with the generic i386 ABI.  The resulting GDB would not
> be very useful.  Shouldn't we somehow warn against this?

FWIW, GCC's configury explicitly lists and warns about obsoleted
targets.  I think this would be a good idea for GDB also.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer