From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28264 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2012 14:19:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 28252 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Apr 2012 14:19:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:18:55 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1SMgZx-0000oh-Rr from Yao_Qi@mentor.com ; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:18:53 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:18:53 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.289.1; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:18:52 -0700 Message-ID: <4F96B68F.7000102@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:36:00 -0000 From: Yao Qi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120412 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Alves CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove board setting `gdb,cannot_call_functions' References: <1335177254-5616-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <4F96B0D7.4040506@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F96B0D7.4040506@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: 2012-04/txt/msg00777.txt.bz2 On 04/24/2012 09:55 PM, Pedro Alves wrote: > The powerpc-sim ones could still be relevant, and tested, I suppose. It could > be the reason that functions couldn't (or can't) be called with these targets was > related to the target backend, not the tdep code in gdb. Or, this might useful while > still developing a new port. E.g., moxie is a new-ish port, where Anthony Green > added that "gdb,cannot_call_functions" as recently as 2010: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dejagnu/2010-01/msg00000.html > > Of course, that might have been blind copy&paste. DejaGNU's baseboards are the good evidence on how these variables are used. Yeah, looks powerpc-sim still use this variable, so we should keep "gdb,cannot_call_functions" in gdb testsuite. Thanks for your input, Pedro. -- Yao (齐尧)