Re: [PATCH] Renesas SH (sh4) native support

[Hector Oron <zumbi@debian.org>]

Hi Joel,

2011/11/18 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>:

> The biggest issue I have besides copyright assignment (from the original
> author, right?) is the fact that it hasn't been tested. If we could
> involve the author a bit, and ask him to rebase the patch against
> HEAD, and test it a bit, at least we could have a little bit of
> confidence.

Surely, before merging the code, it must be built and tested properly.
The original author was CC, but apparently that email was wrong and it
was bouncing the email, so I am adding another known address, and see
if we can add support into main GDB for Renesas SH.

@Yoshii-san, please, look at
<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00490.html> for
context.

> I've also spotted the following:
>
>    +#include <sys/ptrace.h>
>    +#include <sys/types.h>
>    +#include <sys/param.h>
>    +#include <sys/user.h>
>    +#include <sys/syscall.h>
>    +
>    +#include <asm/ptrace.h>
>
> which is a big no-no in a -tdep file. Tdep files should be compilable
> on any host.
>
> I haven't been able to review the file much beyond that...

Thanks for the comments!

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