From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6340 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2004 21:48:19 -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 6316 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2004 21:48:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Nov 2004 21:48:15 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iABLmEnw007921 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:48:15 -0500 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (to-dhcp51.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.151]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iABLm9r12344; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:48:09 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52126129D8C; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:46:57 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4193DDCE.7060205@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:48:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041020) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: joseph@codesourcery.com, kevinb@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Assume solib.h References: <4193BFA0.3060607@gnu.org> <200411112005.iABK5FrV098628@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200411112005.iABK5FrV098628@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00253.txt.bz2 Mark Kettenis wrote: > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:38:08 -0500 > From: Andrew Cagney > > Joseph, Kevin, > > The attached patch illustrates the minimum needed to enable solibs for > Solaris. It just needs to be filled out so that other systems are > updated like I did for PPC linux (hint, hint ;-) > > Once this is in place we can follow through with other cleanups - much > will fall out! > > There's just one non-technical nit. > > It means breaking non solib.[hc] shared library systems. Kevin > indicated that there were two - AIX and HP/UX remaining. I think we can > live with that - we've patiently waited for what, more than two years > for nothing to happen, so it is now time to give things that gentle push. > > IIRC (and looking at the code I think I do remember it correctly) this > also breaks targets without shared library support. I gave it a full test with PowerPC GNU/Linux and sniff test with powerpc-elf. If there are other problems, I'm sure they'll be sorted out. Andrew