Re: [patch] Bring QNX Neutrino support forward.

[Kris Warkentin <kewarken@qnx.com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:

>> Some of this stuff is cosmetic/convenience.  I made the macros for my 
>> nto_target structure testable and moved the comments into the 
>> structure where they're more useful.
>>
>> A few things had to do with initializers.  Some of the signal 
>> handling stuff didn't work because other _init functions hadn't been 
>> called so I moved them out to where they could be called when the 
>> osabi is initialized.
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>
> BTW, what was the race condition?

The _initialize_* functions were being called in a different order than 
previously so all my signal initialization stuff was breaking when I put 
it into my _init* funcs.  It was a while ago I changed it (haven't been 
working on FSF gdb recently) but I believe it was 
target_signal_from_name....

>
>> I added osabi and core sniffers.  Some is practical, some is 
>> future-proofing.  If we start supporting multiple targets, I'm going 
>> to want to be able to swap our various target processors support in 
>> and out.  The is_nto_target type stuff can be made more interesting 
>> later to do things like check to see if the remote host processor 
>> matches the binary abi and such.
>
>
> You should also be able to kill off regset_core_fns, it's been 
> superseeded by regsets (which reminds me ....).

Must have not seen that thread.  I'll look into it.

cheers,

Kris