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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
	Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support.
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C06CBA1.4090209@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1011129234527.ZM19890@ocotillo.lan>

>> Nothing that abstracted.  I copy the necessary type definitions and
>> constants from target headers; they are "relatively" guaranteed never
>> to change.  It's a mess.
> 
> 
> How does the "cross" part of it work then?  Won't the sizes of the
> fundamental types, struct alignment, etc. change depending upon
> which host you compile it on?

Um, isn't this exactly the same problem as for shared libraries?  There 
the target stuff is described/coded in a host independant way.

Andrew



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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
	Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] W.I.P. AltiVec ppc registers support.
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C06CBA1.4090209@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011120105900.zX47oMZJ2K7r14HnPivyuhirApXPq4fP8ARKtDhFG7Y@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1011129234527.ZM19890@ocotillo.lan>

>> Nothing that abstracted.  I copy the necessary type definitions and
>> constants from target headers; they are "relatively" guaranteed never
>> to change.  It's a mess.
> 
> 
> How does the "cross" part of it work then?  Won't the sizes of the
> fundamental types, struct alignment, etc. change depending upon
> which host you compile it on?

Um, isn't this exactly the same problem as for shared libraries?  There 
the target stuff is described/coded in a host independant way.

Andrew



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-29 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-28 18:09 Elena Zannoni
2001-11-18 13:27 ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-18 14:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-19 12:59   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-29  9:04     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-29 13:10     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-19 16:00       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-29 13:34       ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-19 16:42         ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-29 14:11         ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-19 22:22           ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-29 14:27           ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-19 23:55             ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-28 22:27   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-02 10:28   ` Elena Zannoni
2001-12-02 12:19     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-12-02 14:59     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-02 22:25       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-28 18:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-18 13:40   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-29 10:40 ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-19 15:15   ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-19 18:51   ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-29 13:53     ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-29 14:21     ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-19 22:53       ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-29 14:42       ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-20  8:37         ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-29 15:03         ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-20  8:54           ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-29 16:27           ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-20 16:00             ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-20 16:14             ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-21  3:33               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-29 17:41                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-29 16:43               ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-29 16:36             ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-20 16:10               ` Elena Zannoni
2001-11-29 17:40               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-20 18:00                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-29 14:47       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-20  8:37         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-20  9:07         ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-20  9:08           ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-29 15:33             ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-29 15:15           ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-29 15:38           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-20  9:13             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-20 10:09             ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-29 15:47               ` Kevin Buettner
2001-11-29 15:58               ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-11-20 10:59                 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-29 15:59               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-20 11:07                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-29 16:17                 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-20 11:17                   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-20 17:52                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-29 17:39                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-29 18:20                     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-21  4:10                       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-29 22:36                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-11-21  5:56                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-20 10:02         ` Elena Zannoni

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