From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16530 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2004 02:43:56 -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 16508 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2004 02:43:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Jul 2004 02:43:55 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6H2hte3030168 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:43:55 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6H2hqa04295; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:43:54 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F802B9D; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:43:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40F89266.5060100@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 02:43:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: ian@wasabisystems.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com, david@streamline-computing.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Patch] x % 0 hangs References: <20040626154420.265CD4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <200406262252.i5QMqJGP000626@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <40DE0454.1020908@gnu.org> <200406271715.i5RHFARS007952@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> <40E02A56.1040306@gnu.org> <200406292335.i5TNZVm2001003@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200406292335.i5TNZVm2001003@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00213.txt.bz2 (cleaning up old threads) > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:25:26 -0400 > From: Andrew Cagney > > We need start with a working assumption that GDB is being run on POSIX > compliant systems and that implies a working sigsetjmp / siglongjmp. > Only when someone comes forward with a problematic system should we > worry about it (and possibly not even then). > > Sorry, but I don't think fully POSIX compliant systems do actually > exist. We should aim to have a working GDB on as many systems that > are in somewhat wide use as possible. At the very minimum we should > support the latest official release of the GNU systems and other major > Free OS'es out there. For such systems lets at least assume that they more or less work, at least until our testsuite reveals evidence to the contrary. Andrew