From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6488 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2009 12:49:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 6473 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Nov 2009 12:49:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:49:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 5346 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2009 12:49:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 10 Nov 2009 12:49:05 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Remove m68k-elf special cases from gdb.trace Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:49:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Stan Shebs , Michael Snyder References: <20091102012332.GA31878@caradoc.them.org> <4AF078EE.1080800@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <4AF078EE.1080800@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911101249.03859.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2009-11/txt/msg00212.txt.bz2 On Tuesday 03 November 2009 18:39:42, Stan Shebs wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Our tree has carried around (an older version of) this patch for some > > time. > > > > Once upon a distant past, when tracepoint support was first added, GDB > > supported some sort of EMC device (probably a NAS or similar?) with an > > m68k processor. It was a bit different from other GDB targets and the > > main interest was tracepoints rather than full debugging. So bits > > sprang up in the testsuite to accomodate this device. > WP has some background at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC_Symmetrix . > > Ironically, the original tracepoint project was motivated by EMC's > PowerPC transition - the 68k bits were just for testing in the meantime. > (IIRC EMC never used GDB for 68k-target debugging at all!) So there's > nothing lost by ditching those bits, and it will clear the field for > updating to modern setup. gdb/agentexpr.texi has section "Tracing on Symmetrix" that I think should be dropped as well. -- Pedro Alves