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From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Don't complain about unknown OSABI
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020820092202.V2214@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D626854.1040500@ges.redhat.com>; from ac131313@ges.redhat.com on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:03:32PM -0400

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:

 > Next question.  Given an unbranded mips-elf binary, what should the 
 > following GDB's do?
 > 
 > gdb
	"unknown"

 > mips-linux-gnu-gdb
	"GNU/Linux"

 > linux-gnu-gdb
	"GNU/Linux"

 > m68k-linux-gnu-gdb
	"You lose."

 > mips-netbsd-gdb
	"NetBSD ELF"

 > mips-gdb
	"unknown"

 > elf-gdb
	"unknown" assuming there is MIPS support, else "You lose."

 > Having the behavour key off the target creates a problem with an 
 > identical executable behaving differently with different, but similar 
 > GDBs.  I suspect it will encourage people to build different GDB's for 
 > identical purposes when just a single GDB is needed.

The target name merely specifies a default.  If they want to force it
to a certain ABI always, they can put "set osabi ..." in their setup
file.

-- 
        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-20 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-18  8:41 Andrew Cagney
2002-08-18  8:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-18  8:54   ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-08-18  9:42   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-19  9:15     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-19 16:03       ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-19 16:15         ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-08-19 18:55         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-20  9:03           ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-20  9:11             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-21 10:04               ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-21 10:08                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-21 10:11                   ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-08-21 13:26                     ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-21 13:38                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-23  6:07                       ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-08-20  9:22             ` Jason R Thorpe [this message]
2002-08-20  9:25               ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-08-18  8:51 ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-08-18  8:52 ` Elena Zannoni
2002-08-18 11:01 ` Andrew Cagney

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