From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11371 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2002 18:25:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11327 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 18:25:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO heimdall.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 18:25:48 -0000 Received: from zaretsky (diup-221-74.inter.net.il [213.8.221.74]) by heimdall.inter.net.il (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id BDX72507; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:25:40 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:25:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: ac131313@cygnus.com Message-Id: <2950-Sun20Jan2002202236+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, mrg@redhat.com In-reply-to: <3C4AFA9D.6050603@cygnus.com> (message from Andrew Cagney on Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:13:01 -0500) Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Don't assume the host Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <3C4AFA9D.6050603@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00574.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:13:01 -0500 > From: Andrew Cagney > > Much of ``Porting GDB'' also appears in ``Host Definition''. The two > could do with some rationalization. The way I see it, "Porting GDB" is a cookbook: it should list the necessary steps without explaining their rationale too much. It should refer to "Host Definition" for more info, wherever appropriate. "Host Definition", by contrast, should explain as much as possible each of the components of the host definition machinery. > host - the machine GDB will run on > build - the machine your compiling GDB on > target - the machine that GDB will debug > > Native is a special case where host==target. > Cross is where host!=target Yes, I know that, but I still don't understand what is ``host only''. According to what you say now, such a beast does not exist, since there cannot be a GDB without a target ;-)