Re: [PATCH 5/5] RISC-V: Add configure support riscv*-linux*.

Tom Tromey
2018-08-09T04:55:40Z

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com> writes:

Jim> I've been looking at the riscv{32,64} bfd support. Since configuring
Jim> for riscv32 enables riscv64 support also, and riscv64 requires 64-bit
Jim> support, this means that there is no riscv bfd support at all when
Jim> using --disable-64-bit-bfd --enable-targets=all. It looks like the
Jim> gdb riscv support is broken even without my patch, as we can't build a
Jim> riscv32-elf gdb if we don't have bfd. I've got a build running to see
Jim> if I can force a build failure.

I just wanted to reiterate that I don't know how important any of this
really is. The option exists, but I don't know if anybody relies on it.
Perhaps it could be removed instead. Maybe a question for the binutils
list as well.

Tom