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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gdb: tests: add support for testing FLAT toolchains
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:17:00 -0000
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On Friday 01 July 2011 01:24:41, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> From: Jie Zhang <jie@codesourcery.com>
> 
> FLAT toolchains output a FLAT binary for the named output and create
> another file with a .gdb suffix that is used for debugging.  So when
> testing a FLAT toolchain and we need to load up a file, use the .gdb.

Sounds a lot like the recently added
lib/gdb.exp:exec_target_file/exec_symbol_file hooks?  We added them
to solve the exact same problem.  We then have this in our board file
for uclinux/flat toolchains:

       proc exec_target_file { binfile } {
           return ${binfile}.flt
       }

-- 
Pedro Alves