Re: [RFA] Darwin/x86 port (v4 - part 0/4)

Tristan Gingold
2008-11-19T13:11:54Z

Thank you again for your comments.

>> I realized that we don't support configuring as x86_64-*-darwin*.
>> Maybe I should add it ?
>
> Probably, but I admit I don't know enough about the details.

As this cannot be reported by config.guess, I won't add it now. Could
be of course
revisited later.

>> + When set to a non zero value, enables debugging messages while
>> gdb is
>> + reading Darwin object files. The object and executable file format
>> + for Darwin is named mach-o.
>
> The last sentence above should probably be in parentheses, as that's a
> minor note. Also, I would rearrange slightly:
>
> (@dfn{Mach-o} is the file format used on Darwin for object and
> executable files.)

Ok.

>> + @kindex set mach-exceptions
>> + On Darwin, faults are first reported as a mach exception and then
>> as a
>> + signal. Use this command to turn on trapping of mach exceptions in
>> + the inferior. This might be seldom useful to better understand the
>> + cause of a fault. The default is off.
>
> So you are basically saying that mach exceptions are native Darwin
> exceptions, and they are then mapped to Posix signals? At least that
> is what I understand from this explanation.

Yes. I have used your reworded sentence.

> Also, please make sure you have 2 spaces after each period that ends a
> sentence.

Sure.

Tristan.