Re: The VAX

Mark Kettenis
2004-04-12T17:39:02Z

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:42:58 -0400
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>

> I've successfully installed NetBSD 1.6.1 on a VAX simulator. The
> performance is actually quite reasonable on my AMD64 box. It is
> currently compiling GDB.
>
> Anyway, I'm working on GDB's VAX target. Hopefully I'll have a
> working native NetBSD/vax configuration soon. I'm already working on
> frameifying vax-tdep.c. So stay tuned, and don't throw away the
> current VAX stuff just yet...

Been there, done that. Per my earlier e-mails, NetBSD/VAX GDB doesn't
build - the nat code is simply missing.

I've got a working NetBSD/vax GDB now. The BSD-specific nat code is
already checked in :-). I just need to tweak the config files, but I
don't want to do that now since that'll probably mean I'll have to
rebuild everything, which is a bit time-consuming. I'll do that when
I'm finished rewriting the code in vax-tdep.c.

In the mean time, would it be a problem if frameifying the VAX would
nuke signal trampoline handling on Ultrix? Not that I expect it to be
working...

Mark