From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] make --disable-gdbmi work
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fnvm18$l9f$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A2371C.3020402@qnx.com>
Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
>>> The attached patch fixes the problem.
>>
>> My opinion is that we don't want this functionality any more. MI used
>> to be optional, but it is a central part of GDB nowadays, and
>> conditional compilation is hard to maintain.
>>
>
> It certainly adds some effort to maintenance, but it's not as bad as it
> may sound, especially since the change is not extensive at all (see the
> patch).
>
> For embedded systems, it is important to have as small a binary as
> possible, and if we can reduce it with reasonable effort, I would say, why
> not?
Only if you're running gdb itself on an embedded target, which might not
be the best idea -- you'd need the binaries with debug symbols on the
embedded system, and you'd need memory where gdb can store same debug symbols
read from files, and so on.
- Volodya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 21:01 Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-01-31 21:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-31 21:49 ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-02-01 17:40 ` Doug Evans
2008-02-01 19:06 ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-02-01 19:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-01 19:28 ` Aleksandar Ristovski
2008-02-01 19:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-01 17:48 ` Vladimir Prus [this message]
2008-02-01 12:39 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
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