From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15394 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2011 16:57:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 15380 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Feb 2011 16:57:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:57:21 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1HGuwh0002645 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:56:59 -0500 Received: from host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1HGuumh003001 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:56:58 -0500 Received: from host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1HGuuwp029673; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:56:56 +0100 Received: (from jkratoch@localhost) by host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p1HGutku029672; Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:56:55 +0100 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:15:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Yao Qi , Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] Move common macros to i386-common.h Message-ID: <20110217165655.GB29274@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> References: <4D57AB12.1050708@codesourcery.com> <4D5CBF2D.9020101@codesourcery.com> <20110217063641.GC15527@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110217063641.GC15527@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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: 2011-02/txt/msg00428.txt.bz2 On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:36:41 +0100, Joel Brobecker wrote: > Thinking beyond that, I think that GDB should conceptualy contain > a internal GDBserver. That way, when we port GDB to an architecture, > we're pretty much porting GDBserver as well, for free. And when > someone only ported GDBserver at one point, we don't need to redo > that work when porting GDB itself. It was discussed before, an external gdbserver is IMO fine, the problem is some important features are now present only in linux-nat (such as `set follow-fork-mode') (and other features are only in gdbserver now). After the features are on-par in gdbserver the switch will happen ASAP. Thanks, Jan