From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17649 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2010 15:52:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 17630 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Feb 2010 15:52:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 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; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:52:48 +0000 Received: (qmail 31168 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2010 15:52:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caradoc.them.org) (dan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 22 Feb 2010 15:52:46 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:52:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "H.J. Lu" Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Enable x86 XML target descriptions Message-ID: <20100222155243.GC30100@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "H.J. Lu" , Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20100210200303.GA19632@lucon.org> <20100218054312.GA9022@lucon.org> <20100218153402.GA27929@lucon.org> <20100218230135.GA17916@intel.com> <201002221342.o1MDgSZA029705@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20100222144141.GA30100@caradoc.them.org> <6dc9ffc81002220734i15bd1279mb54cb0b64a37f3dc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6dc9ffc81002220734i15bd1279mb54cb0b64a37f3dc@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-02/txt/msg00539.txt.bz2 On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 07:34:01AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote: > I just need to know if the inferior is 32bit or 64bit. Why shouldn't > target_gdbarch be used? At this point, target_gdbarch should have > the correct bfd cpu info. Is that correct? Not if, for instance, we did not find the executable. If you are just guessing based on the gdbarch, what value does this function add? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery