From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3196 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2002 18:22:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3189 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2002 18:22:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Aug 2002 18:22:44 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17gUhI-0002dt-00; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:22:45 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17gUho-0006mA-00; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:23:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:22:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: ac131313@ges.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/in] Add (broken) hppa-elf target Message-ID: <20020818182316.GA26007@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , ac131313@ges.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3D5FC7BE.3000302@ges.redhat.com> <86it28xgdh.fsf@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <3D5FD91C.7000302@ges.redhat.com> <200208181803.g7II32ag029618@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208181803.g7II32ag029618@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00517.txt.bz2 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 > > 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