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>
next prev 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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