Re: [PATCH][CRISv32] Add support for threaded debugging

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 09/03/2013 03:57 PM, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 
>>>> This part looks OK, though it did raise some eyebrows to have
>>>> GNU/Linux-specific code in cris-tdep.c, rather than in a cris-linux-tdep.c
>>>> file.  It seems there's no real support for cris bare-metal debugging?
>> ...
>>> I don't really see the need for it. It doesn't seem like it would be a
>>> huge effort (essentially the call to
>>> set_gdbarch_fetch_tls_load_module_address and also
>>> set_solib_svr4_fetch_link_map_offsets would be put in cris-linux-tdep.c),
>>> on the other hand I can't really test that it works as expected,
>> ...
>> It's mostly about code/design/maintenance sanity.  I won't really mind if the
>> split isn't done, but note how the fact that there's a Linux port here
>> is being missed often in regular maintenance (because people will look
>> for *linux-tdep.*) files.  cris-tdep.c doesn't call linux_init_abi anywhere
>> AFAICT, for example, so the cris port lost the adjustment between v1
>> and v2 of the gdbarch_gdb_signal_{to,from}_target
>> patches, just a few weeks back:
>>
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-07/msg00002.html
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-07/msg00651.html
>>
>> Probably other across-the-board changes have been missed.
> 
> That's a good point. I'll see if I find some time to make a rudimentary 
> split.
> 
> Regarding the specific case above, it's a bit odd though that the CRIS 
> port was included in the first patch set but not the second, considering 
> they were supplied by the same person. Still, it still makes your point.

It's not odd at all.  linux-tdep.c is supposed to be built by all
Linux ports, and it was assumed that all Linux ports are calling
linux-tdep.c:linux_init_abi.  In v2 you see:

"- linux-tdep.c now registers the generic converters itself, thus
  eliminating the need for every target to do so."

Since cris is missing linux-tdep.c, it was left out by accident.

-- 
Pedro Alves