From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9366 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2006 16:52:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 9346 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jan 2006 16:52:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:52:29 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ezd1P-000308-5g for gdb@sourceware.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:52:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:53:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Is the current KOD code useful? Message-ID: <20060119165226.GA11310@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00190.txt.bz2 The Kernel Object Display framework never really took off, as far as I can see. It's got exactly one supported OS in the GDB sources, which is just called Cisco (presumably IOS). It's had no non-mechanical changes since it was contributed, around 2000. I'm fixing up the target_xfer_partial interface, as discussed yesterday. It carries around a pretty sizable wart for KOD involving querying the buffer size (which as far as I can tell doesn't work, anyway). Rather than fix it, if this is obsolete we should remove it. Does anyone but Cisco use this? Do even they still use it in its current form? I have no idea if anyone on this list can answer these questions; if no one can, I suspect this code has reached the end of its useful life. For now I'm just going to skip over that file. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery