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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:35:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: mdebugread.c (was Re: struct environment)
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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:55:56PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:46:32 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:41:02PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> 
> >> How hard do you think it would be to convert mdebugread over to using
> >> the mechanisms from buildsym?
> 
> > I think, very easy.  But I no longer have (easy) access to any system
> > which uses it, so I was reluctant to mess around.
> 
> Yeah, that's something that I'm worried about too.  Is there anybody
> else that's reading this that can help with changes to that file?
> Who's the appropriate maintainer; is it Andrew?

Alpha still uses it under some circumstances; and old-ish or properly
(improperly? :) configured MIPS tools may also.  You might be able to
find a MIPS simulator target that works to test this but it'd be a bit
of a pain.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer