Re: [RFA] Type cleanups

Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-18T07:13:50Z

> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:21:46 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> >
> > Sorry, I still don't understand: does this mean a remote debugger with
> > some stub on the remote DOS/Windows machine? Or maybe the stub (or
> > gdbserver) running inside DOSEmu on the GNU/Linux box?
>
> Those are both valid.
>
> > My point is that DJGPP debugging is very special: there's no OS
> > provision for system calls like ptrace etc., so the only way to debug
> > a DJGPP inferior is to run it natively under a specially built program
> > that is linked against the DJGPP debug support library. I'm curious
> > how does your cross build achieve that, since I believe neither
> > gdbserver nor any of the remote-* modules support DJGPP as of now.
>
> I didn't say it would be useful. But consult MAINTAINERS; everything
> listed in the "Targets" section on a --target= line is currently
> "expected" to be buildable as a cross debugger, to sanity check
> changes. That's all I was doing.

Then I don't think you (or anyone else on this list) should be
concerned with these problems: IMHO, a failure to build a
dysfunctional version of GDB is not a failure at all.