From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15501 invoked by alias); 26 May 2009 19:01:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 15146 invoked by uid 22791); 26 May 2009 19:01:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtagate7.de.ibm.com (HELO mtagate7.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.156) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 May 2009 19:01:32 +0000 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate7.de.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4QJ0jqO183458 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 19:00:45 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n4QJ0jse3240054 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 21:00:45 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n4QJ0iev031460 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 21:00:44 +0200 Received: from tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.85.9]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id n4QJ0h8q031450; Tue, 26 May 2009 21:00:43 +0200 Message-Id: <200905261900.n4QJ0h8q031450@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> Received: by tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 26 May 2009 21:00:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [rfc] Remove current_gdbarch register handling from symbol readers To: eliz@gnu.org Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:01:00 -0000 From: "Ulrich Weigand" Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <83skissxuo.fsf@gnu.org> from "Eli Zaretskii" at May 25, 2009 11:59:11 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2009-05/txt/msg00575.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:14:39 +0200 (CEST) > > From: "Ulrich Weigand" > > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > > > So overall it seems that *no* target uses COFF/SDB debug info as its > > default format any more; those that still support it at all also use > > a more powerful format as default. Under those circumstances, is there > > any benefit to continuing to support that format in GDB, given that it > > becomes more and more diffcult to test that this support actually > > still works? > > DJGPP needs support for the COFF debug info because the DJGPP port of > Emacs can only be built with -gcoff. That's because no one ported > unexec.c in Emacs to DWARF-2 debug info embedded in COFF binary > format. I don't expect such changes in unexec.c any time soon. Ah, I see. OK, I guess we can leave support in for now ... > > > The problem is that DJGPP does not support expect, so the the test > > > suite cannot be run. I can run some tests manually, so if you or > > > someone else could tell which test may be affected by this change, I > > > can try running them. > > > > Pretty much any access to an in-register local variable or parameter > > should break if the change is wrong. > > OK, I will run at least some of them. Thanks, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com