From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19372 invoked by alias); 17 May 2002 18:46:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19338 invoked from network); 17 May 2002 18:46:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lgh163a.kemisten.nu) (212.32.172.173) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 May 2002 18:46:08 -0000 Received: from ams by lgh163a.kemisten.nu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 178mjp-0000NL-00; Fri, 17 May 2002 20:46:01 +0200 To: Jason R Thorpe Cc: Michael Snyder , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFA] Generic OS ABI handling References: <20020516151705.Y4613@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <3CE4342B.10803@cygnus.com> <20020516154139.Z4613@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <3CE4392B.4070009@cygnus.com> <20020516161130.A4613@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <20020516195255.G4613@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <2561-Fri17May2002110306+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <87elgbkrnr.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> <3CE53FBF.2C33766C@redhat.com> <87lmai3aqz.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> <20020517113348.C14437@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> From: ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20020517113348.C14437@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> Message-ID: <87hel6395i.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00745.txt.bz2 * Jason R Thorpe writes: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:11:32PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >> What I think you might be thinking about is the Hurd (the GNU Hurd), >> which is just a set of libraries, utilities and translators. But this >> is not the operating system. > But from GDB's perspective, GNU using Hurd is different from GNU > using Linux. Hence they have different OS ABI values, and different > names corresponding to those values. Yes, but the operating system is not called "GNU Hurd", so either rename it to GNU. And in either case GNU using the Hurd is still just GNU. Calling it GNU Hurd is confusing as the GNU Hurd project is called by that name. Cheers, -- Alfred M. Szmidt