From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6387 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2017 14:45:47 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 4575 invoked by uid 89); 12 Apr 2017 14:45:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1218 X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:45:42 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyJWb-00074w-Js for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:45:42 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyJWb-00074l-BP; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:45:37 -0400 Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4280 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cyJWa-0006sD-KD; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:45:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:45:00 -0000 Message-Id: <837f2pk7kq.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Pedro Alves CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Pedro Alves on Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:25:56 +0100) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: Move DJGPP/go32 bits to their own tdep file Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <1492003875-25394-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> <83bms1ka9s.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > From: Pedro Alves > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:25:56 +0100 > > >> Thanks, but why single out go32? > > > > Because incremental progress. > > Specifically, the "trouble finding djgpp bits" I'm referring to > happened after you pointed me that djgpp needed a tweak too: > > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-03/msg00538.html > > At first, I didn't see a tdep file and so I thought that I'd have > to add one, and maybe come up with a djgpp arch sniffer. It took > me a few minutes to realize that we already have go32-specific > tdep bits in the generic i386 file. So that's my only > motivation -- exactly to make it easier to spot the djgpp bits > quicker. There's no other rationale behind this. If I'll have to > go do more things to other ports to get this in, I'm afraid I'll > just drop the patch, because _I_ will have learned about them and > know next time where to look. It's fine with me if you decide to make only that change. I just think that if you had this difficulty with go32 bits, someone else might have the same difficulty with SVR4 bits. That's why I wrote what I wrote.