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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] [11/18] Cell multi-arch: Target description <compatible> infrastructure
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzlmjcp22.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809072115.m87LF11x002403@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>

> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:15:01 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
> 
> doc/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* gdb.texinfo (Target Descriptions): Document <compatible> element.

This part is okay, with the following comments:

> +@var{arch} is an architecture name from the same selection
> +accepted by @code{set architecture} (@pxref{Targets, ,Specifying a
> +Debugging Target}).

I don't understand the purpose of "the same" here.  Same as what?

>                                                   For example, on the
> +Cell Broadband Engine, the main architecture is @code{powerpc:common}
> +or @code{powerpc:common64}, but the system is able to run binaries
> +in the @code{spu} architecture as well.

This begs a continuation:

  The way to describe this capability with @samp{<compatible>} is as
  follows:

  @smallexample
  ...
  @end smallexample

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-07 21:15 Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-08  3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-09-08 11:45   ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-08 19:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-09 10:47       ` Ulrich Weigand

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