From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Jiri Smid <smid@suse.cz>
Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA]: x86_64 target files
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 22:53:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B73767F.50405@cygnus.com>
References: <s8vg0baa6hb.fsf@naga.suse.cz> <1010802164104.ZM12659@ocotillo.lan>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00095.html

> Jiri,
> 
> I haven't looked closely at your patch, but one of the things that I
> did notice is that your target is not multi-arched.  I am fairly certain
> that this will need to be done before your changes will be accepted.
> 
> For more information, see
> 
>     http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/papers/multi-arch/


Yes, that is correct.  All new targets need to use the multi-arch framework.

In general the target should be broken down into two parts:

	o	the generic target code
		which is typically purely multi-arch
		(i.e. no macros at all)

	o	the nat stuff (which I tend to have
		little intereest in :-)

Andrew