Re: MIPS Linux signals

Michael Eager
2012-05-22T00:16:06Z

On 05/21/2012 03:48 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012, Michael Eager wrote:
>
>>> BTW, I wouldn't bother with gdbarch_target_signal_to_host. Nothing ever
>>> calls it.
>>
>> I hadn't noticed that. I thought that it was called to translate
>> the signal number when sent to the target. Instead, target_signal_to_host()
>> is called.
>
> Shall we drop the unused gdbarch API so as to avoid further confusion
> then? Shouldn't target_signal_from_host be renamed to something closer to
> what it really does, e.g. signal_from_target? It's not that host signals
> really ever matter unless host == target in which case they're still
> target signals too (this observation applies to gdbserver as well).

This would be OK with me. The gdbarch_target_signal_to_host interface
suggests that this should differ for different targets.

There is an old bug report about the unclear name for the function.
gdbarch_signal_from_target would be a better name.

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