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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@tooth.toronto.redhat.com>
To: cagney@redhat.com
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Obsolete GDB's m32r support
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206181406.g5IE6kb05361@tooth.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:52:30 EDT." <3D0F3B1E.5020308@cygnus.com>


Hi -

> > Can you summarize the technical reasons for this dichotomy of
> > outcomes?  In what way does the presence of old targets pose a
> > technical challenge to more modern multiarch'd ones?  In other words,
> > what technical reasons exist to not allow old targets to stick around
> > as they are?
>
> The rationale for this move has been discussed on a number of occasions 
> in the past, can I recommend a quick search through the e-mail archives 
> and a review of that previous debate.

A quick search resulted only in (valid) descriptions of multi-arch
superiority, and dicta that old targets shall convert or die.  It
didn't answer my question above.  Perhaps you could spare time for
a more specific pointer?


- FChE


  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-18 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-17 17:25 Andrew Cagney
2002-06-18  6:11 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2002-06-18  6:52   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-18  7:06     ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2002-06-18  8:42       ` Andrew Cagney

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