Re: patch to add QNX NTO i386 support

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:25:14PM -0500, Kris Warkentin wrote:
> > > This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=ntox86".
> > > (gdb) target qnx ren:10000
> > > Remote debugging using ren:10000
> > > (gdb) sym blah
> > > Reading symbols from blah...done.
> >
> > Silly question - why not say "file blah" here?  That'll set exec_bfd,
> > and you'll be just fine.
> 
> 
> Not silly.  If you say 'file' you have tied yourself to the host and target
> file being the same.  I need to be able to get syms from /home/kewarken/foo
> and run /tmp/foo.

Wait, but from your earlier sequence, isn't /home/kewarken/foo on the
host and uploaded to /tmp/foo on the target?

I don't follow why GDB needs to know anything about the target
filename.  I can see that this remote protocol is very different from
the normal one, if you're ssending full paths.

> > If I'm right, and you want to support the above sequence, you could
> > probably locally make sym set the exec file, if none was set.
> 
> I'm trying to find the right place to call exec_file_attach or some such.  I
> think I'm close....;-)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Kris
> 
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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