Re: [RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-01T01:01:52Z

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:42:45PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The XML code has both architecture and target components. While the
> only target to implement it is remote.c, it's easy to keep it optional,
> and I'm willing. But I've already got patches which use this for the
> sim/ simulators and for native arm-linux debugging, and I have requests
> sitting in my queue to do similar things for two native PowerPC
> variants (74xx and e500; and at least the 74xx is a popular native
> architecture).

... But we could probably find other ways to use the XML data files for
native/sim architectures now that I think about it; we could preprocess
them into C structures and store the C structures in CVS. That's
actually not too hard.

So, optional can work, at least for now.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery