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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>,         "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for Xilinx MicroBlaze
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Reply-To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:00:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20091015164724.GC5272@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of 	"Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:47:25 -0700")
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>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Tom> How would this be done?
Tom> Users might be using an old gcc or a new one.

Joel> The only solution I see to this problem would be that users of a recent
Joel> GCC would have to use a recent GDB.

The problem is that this also implies that users stuck on an old compiler
will be stuck with an old gdb.

Joel> Worse case scenario, a microblase-specific setting.

Yeah.  Or parsing the dwarf producer string.

Tom