From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Ben Harris Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com, Jim blandy , Todd Vierling Subject: Re: Fix stack backtraces on 26-bit ARM Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 09:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <3BD2F3E0.2030603@cygnus.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00285.html > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> Hmm, this could get interesting. A NetBSD/arm port of GDB would >> certainly help improve the quality of the Arm GDB target. Your >> contribution are going to be most welcome. Problem is, I can't find a >> copyright assignment for you (you'll get a separate e-mail about this). >> Can you please clarify your assignment status? Not having an >> assignment can make things, er, interesting. At present your submitting >> small simple bugs that can be described in simple english. > > > I've signed assignments for GCC and Binutils. I'm happy to sign one for > GDB as well. I haven't worked out quite who wrote our existing ARM GDB > stuff: it was checked in by Todd Vierling, but I think the work was mostly > done by Mark Brinicombe. Yes, please get an assignment. It makes everyones life soooo much easier. If you're not sure where the code came from and/or it isn't clear that the original contributors have an assignment then you'll need to ``ignore'' it. Most recent *BSD contributors have ended up abandoning their old branch, instead starting anew. Having said that, the approach you appear to be taking looks to be the right one - identify individual bugs and get them submitted/fixed. >> The other thing to know is that patches should be against the current >> trunk rather than the last release. 5.0 is just so old ... > > > Unfortunately, 5.0 is what NetBSD is currently working towards using, so > all my patches are likely to start life there. I'll do what I can to > ensure they're still relevant to the trunk, though. Hmm, something additional to note, GDB 5.1-branch and current both work on many more NetBSD systems than 5.0. You man want to consider getting current working first. good luck! Andrew