From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21464 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2009 18:39:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 21451 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Nov 2009 18:39:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:39:49 +0000 Received: (qmail 1017 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2009 18:39:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO macbook-2.local) (stan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 3 Nov 2009 18:39:47 -0000 Message-ID: <4AF078EE.1080800@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:39:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) 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 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/msg00063.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. WP has some background at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC_Symmetrix . Ironically, the original tracepoint project was motivated by EMC's PowerPC transition - the 68k bits were just for testing in the meantime. (IIRC EMC never used GDB for 68k-target debugging at all!) So there's nothing lost by ditching those bits, and it will clear the field for updating to modern setup. Stan