From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3310 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2004 14:35:58 -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 3301 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2004 14:35:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Sep 2004 14:35:58 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8OEZvSV016913 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:35:57 -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 i8OEZqr23206; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:35:52 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7131928D2; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:33:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41543040.9060106@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:35:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040831 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Suggested ways to remove the need for xm-go32.h References: <01c49d82$Blat.v2.2.2$23875ec0@zahav.net.il> <20040923050534.GA11936@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <41526D73.nailWK21NVX4@mindspring.com> <20040923080312.GA12351@cygbert.vinschen.de> <01c4a224$Blat.v2.2.2$4d880a20@zahav.net.il> In-Reply-To: <01c4a224$Blat.v2.2.2$4d880a20@zahav.net.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00402.txt.bz2 >>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:03:12 +0200 >>> From: Corinna Vinschen >>> >>> First I thought that's a good idea, but then again, it requires every >>> system to support /dev/null. I'm not sure you'd find a filename which >>> all systems can agree to. > > > I agree; I think it will be downright impossible to find such a file > name. Native configurations could all use /dev/null, but the remote > embedded targets are another story... The question to ask is ``do all hosts on which GDB will run support this?''. Since this stuff is host dependant, the target (native or remote) doesn't matter. Andrew