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From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Darwin/x86 port (v4 - part 0/4)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D8F661F7-6312-4267-843B-823EB4AF3FBF@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud4gum5hu.fsf@gnu.org>

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.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-19 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-14 18:14 Tristan Gingold
2008-11-14 18:50 ` Pedro Alves
2008-11-14 18:51   ` Tristan Gingold
2008-11-14 21:05     ` Stan Shebs
2008-11-14 22:07       ` Pedro Alves
2008-11-17 19:36         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-11-17 21:55           ` Tristan Gingold
2008-11-14 22:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-17 21:03   ` Tristan Gingold
2008-11-18  3:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-19 23:03       ` Tristan Gingold [this message]
2008-11-18 17:46 ` Stan Shebs
2008-11-19 20:44   ` Tristan Gingold

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