From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20085 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2009 18:15:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 19949 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Nov 2009 18:15:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,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, 10 Nov 2009 18:15:41 +0000 Received: (qmail 12423 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2009 18:15:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO macbook-2.local) (stan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 10 Nov 2009 18:15:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4AF9ADBE.4060409@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:15:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Alves CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Stan Shebs , Michael Snyder Subject: Re: Remove m68k-elf special cases from gdb.trace References: <20091102012332.GA31878@caradoc.them.org> <4AF078EE.1080800@codesourcery.com> <200911101249.03859.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200911101249.03859.pedro@codesourcery.com> 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/msg00216.txt.bz2 Pedro Alves wrote: > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 18:39:42, Stan Shebs wrote: > >> 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. >> > > gdb/agentexpr.texi has section "Tracing on Symmetrix" that I > think should be dropped as well. > Agreed. It's an interesting historical tidbit, but historians can go dig up an old rev if they really want to research it. Stan