From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24907 invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2007 20:32:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 24837 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Oct 2007 20:32:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:31:59 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9TKVnhS025202; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:31:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9TKVmCP010779; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:31:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:53:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200710292031.l9TKVmCP010779@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: uweigand@de.ibm.com CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <200710292019.l9TKJ78e001372@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> (uweigand@de.ibm.com) Subject: Re: [rfc] [7/9] Multi-target support: Fix GDB_OSABI_OPENBSD_AOUT problem References: <200710292019.l9TKJ78e001372@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-10/txt/msg00779.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:19:07 +0100 (CET) > From: "Ulrich Weigand" > > Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > The last OpenBSD/i386 release that used a.out was OpenBSD 3.3, which > > was released more than four years ago. I have no problem with > > dropping a.out support for OpenBSD/i386 if that makes things easier. > > > > However, OpenBSD/vax, OpenBSD/m68k and OpenBSD/m88k are still a.out, > > so parts of your diff might still be required (didn't look at the > > details of your diff yet). > > The problem occurs whenever we want to support both OpenBSD-a.out > and NetBSD-a.out on the same platform, and they both want to install > (different) OSABI handlers. > > On vax, both NetBSD and OpenBSD want to install an OSABI handler, > so this *is* a problem. However, the NetBSD OSABI handler doesn't > actually do anything -- do you know the status of NetBSD/vax? NetBSD/vax has been using ELF since NetBSD 1.5 or 1.6. I guess this means NetBSD/vax a.out could be dropped. > If we can resolve the vax question, and indeed drop a.out support > for either NetBSD/i386 or OpenBSD/i386, this would solve the problem > as well. Probably both can be dropped. NetBSD/i386 started using ELF before OpenBSD/i386, but I have no problem with dropping OpenBSD/i386 a.out support. Mark