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From: Luis Machado <luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdbarch script's purpose
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175105340.4417.7.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070328175818.GE3866@adacore.com>

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:58 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > What is exactly the purpose of the gdb/gdbarch.sh script and where in
> > the build process it's used?
> 
> The purpose of this script is to generate the gdbarch.[hc] files.
> Most of this file is very repetitive, so gdbarch.sh contains the
> useful info, without any of the repetition, and then generates
> the C files that we then compile.
> 
> This script is not invoked during the build, but only manually,
> when the gdbarch vector is modified. In other words, when we modify
> gdbarch.sh, we rerun it, and commit a new version of gdbarch.[ch].
> 

It's clear now. Thanks for the info Joel.

Regards,
Luis


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-28 17:49 Luis Machado
2007-03-28 17:57 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-03-28 18:09   ` Luis Machado [this message]
2007-03-28 17:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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