From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15485 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2011 07:25:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 15468 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2011 07:25:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:25:34 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD7A52BB150; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:25:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Hk-bEaa9w8dS; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:25:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF102BB0F4; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:25:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 47A3F145615; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:25:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:59:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Ralf Corsepius Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: status on gdb-7.4 release... Message-ID: <20111222072526.GQ23376@adacore.com> References: <20111222062604.GU7683@adacore.com> <4EF2D728.8050509@rtems.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EF2D728.8050509@rtems.org> 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: 2011-12/txt/msg00765.txt.bz2 > gdb-7.3.91 installs $(includedir)/gdb/jit-reader.h > No idea what this is, why gdb does so and what it would be useful for. > To me it looks like a header without a corresponding library. Thanks. I don't know all the details, but this is the API that programs should use if they want to provide their own reader for JIT debug information. There is no need for a corresponding library as far as I know. See: http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/JIT-Interface.html#JIT-Interface -- Joel