From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29025 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2002 17:13:05 -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 28985 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 17:13:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 17:13:01 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93203F0A; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:13:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C4AFA9D.6050603@cygnus.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 09:13:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, mrg@redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Don't assume the host References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00570.txt.bz2 > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> this time it includes updates to gdbint.texinfo (Eli?). > > > Approved. > > >> One thing I noticed in tweeking the doco is that there is a mysterious >> but almost useless chapter ``Porting GDB''. The information that >> chapter provides is also present elsewhere in a more complete form. > > > What is that other chapter? Much of ``Porting GDB'' also appears in ``Host Definition''. The two could do with some rationalization. >> + New host only configurations do not need this file. > > > What is a ``host only configuration''? Is it an a.k.a. for > ``native''? I'm not sure, since you later say I suspect strictly speaking I've used the correct technical word but the usage isn't exactly mainstream. 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 Adding to the problems is (as I've now documented) the way GDB uses HOST when it probably means NATIVE! This one really messes up people playing with GDBSERVER. >> ! New host and native configurations do not need this file. > > > Otherwise, I have no comments. Thanks! Andrew