Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] arc: Add ARCv2 XML target along with refactoring

Simon Marchi
2020-08-04T13:21:05Z

On 2020-08-04 9:18 a.m., Shahab Vahedi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:08:39AM -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
>> Does that cause backwards compatibility issues? Could someone have written a gdb stub
>> returning an XML target description containing the old feature names, which will now not
>> work due to these name changes?
>
> Yes!
>

Do you see a way we could keep backwards compatibility? Like a way to introduce the new
names, but still make the old names work?

Simon