From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16592 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2011 07:59:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 16574 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2011 07:59:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mout0.freenet.de (HELO mout0.freenet.de) (195.4.92.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:59:26 +0000 Received: from [195.4.92.141] (helo=mjail1.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1RddYh-0007bS-N3; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:59:23 +0100 Received: from localhost ([::1]:48069 helo=mjail1.freenet.de) by mjail1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1RddYh-00068P-J6; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:59:23 +0100 Received: from [195.4.92.18] (port=52268 helo=8.mx.freenet.de) by mjail1.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1RddWZ-0005Ui-Jx; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:57:11 +0100 Received: from hsi-kbw-078-043-060-159.hsi4.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de ([78.43.60.159]:38892 helo=[192.168.1.104]) by 8.mx.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID ralf.corsepius@freenet.de) (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (port 587) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1RddWZ-0007zF-Fe; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:57:11 +0100 Message-ID: <4EF2E2D6.8020503@rtems.org> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:05:00 -0000 From: Ralf Corsepius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: status on gdb-7.4 release... References: <20111222062604.GU7683@adacore.com> <4EF2D728.8050509@rtems.org> <20111222072526.GQ23376@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20111222072526.GQ23376@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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: 2011-12/txt/msg00766.txt.bz2 On 12/22/2011 08:25 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> gdb-7.3.91 installs $(includedir)/gdb/jit-reader.h >> No idea what this is, why gdb does so and what it would be useful for. >> To me it looks like a header without a corresponding library. > Thanks. > > I don't know all the details, but this is the API that programs > should use if they want to provide their own reader for JIT > debug information. There is no need for a corresponding library > as far as I know. See: > http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/JIT-Interface.html#JIT-Interface > OK, then ... wouldn't it be better to install this header into a versioned directory, say $(includedir)/gdb-$(GDB_VERSION) or $(includedir)/gdb/$(GDB_VERSION) ? Otherwise this file will conflict with other gdbs' versions of this file when having different versions of gdb installed in parallel[1] and should this file change in future versions of gdb. Ralf [1] I am building cross-gdbs to be installed in parallel to a system's native gdb and other cross-gdbs.