From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19264 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2003 14:13:58 -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 19191 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2003 14:13:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 2003 14:13:55 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C002E2B7F; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:13:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F1800A2.90605@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:13:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: kewarken@qnx.com, drow@mvista.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ping] Re: [Patch] arch recognition fix for osabi.c References: <08c201c334e6$ccb8c750$0202040a@catdog> <20030617155147.GA25280@nevyn.them.org> <08d801c334ea$23fd99c0$0202040a@catdog> <20030619190853.GA25755@nevyn.them.org> <113c01c347bd$ba454a00$0202040a@catdog> <200307111626.h6BGQi3W033834@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 > Apparently this doesn't work for MIPS, since BFD declares different > processors (which it calls "machines") to be incompatible. I'm not > quite familiar with MIPS, but I suppose this is not quite true, but > that the various MIPS processors cannot be mapped on a one-dimensional > quantity that expresses the features of the various CPU's. That could > be a valid reason why the MIPS "compatibility function" is written the > way it is. Perhaps it can be improved? If so, I think that's the way > to go. Otherwise, I think you should register for all CPU types that > you support. Can, to make life less painful, a wild card (-1 safe?) be added? Andrew