From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24235 invoked by alias); 17 May 2002 18:11:46 -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 24201 invoked from network); 17 May 2002 18:11:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lgh163a.kemisten.nu) (212.32.172.173) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 May 2002 18:11:41 -0000 Received: from ams by lgh163a.kemisten.nu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 178mCS-0000Lg-00; Fri, 17 May 2002 20:11:32 +0200 To: Michael Snyder Cc: Eli Zaretskii , thorpej@wasabisystems.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFA] Generic OS ABI handling References: <20020513120839.X3435@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <15588.11053.545829.689213@localhost.redhat.com> <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> From: ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:11:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3CE53FBF.2C33766C@redhat.com> Message-ID: <87lmai3aqz.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/msg00740.txt.bz2 * Michael Snyder writes: > "Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: >> >> >> +static const char * const gdb_osabi_names[] = >> >> +{ >> >> + "", >> >> + >> >> + "SVR4", >> >> + "GNU Hurd", >> ^^^^^^^^ >> This should be changed to GNU. > I'm not sure I agree, since Linux is now referred to as > GNU/Linux. If there's room for confusion, extra info > cannot hurt. What is there to disagree about? The operating system is called GNU, it has always been called that. And I am not even going to bother bring up the whole issue about Linux being a kernel and such. :) 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. Cheers, -- Alfred M. Szmidt