From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31158 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2009 02:53:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 31149 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Nov 2009 02:53:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com) (65.115.85.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:53:15 +0000 Received: from mailhost2.vmware.com (mailhost2.vmware.com [10.16.67.167]) by smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58CF55024 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.20.94.141] (msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com [10.20.94.141]) by mailhost2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAACD8E732; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:53:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AEE49A7.8040506@vmware.com> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:53:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20090624) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Michael Snyder Subject: Re: Remove m68k-elf special cases from gdb.trace References: <20091102012332.GA31878@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20091102012332.GA31878@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-11/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Our tree has carried around (an older version of) this patch for some > time. > > Once upon a distant past, when tracepoint support was first added, GDB > supported some sort of EMC device (probably a NAS or similar?) with an > m68k processor. It was a bit different from other GDB targets and the > main interest was tracepoints rather than full debugging. So bits > sprang up in the testsuite to accomodate this device. > > They were only conditioned on "m68k-*-elf" (or at least, ended up that > way). We happen to build toolchains for ColdFire processors which > also match m68k-*-elf. Running the EMC tracepoint stub on them, > unsurprisingly, yields poor results. > > I could have cleaned this up some other way, but I strongly suspect > the system we're supporting is no longer deployed - or at least is not > used with any current version of GDB. Does anyone know otherwise? > Michael, your name is on some of the original changelog entries for > these files; CC'd in hopes you know what's become of this target. It's ok with me, if it's ok with Stan. ;-)