From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Is the current KOD code useful?
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060120202933.GA13428@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060119165226.GA11310@nevyn.them.org>
Copying this to Fernando, since I belatedly noticed Fernando's entry
in MAINTAINERS for this today. Oops!
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:52:27AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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 fix it, if this is obsolete we should remove it.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-20 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 20:53 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-20 20:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-01-20 22:21 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-20 22:33 ` Jim Blandy
2006-01-21 10:09 ` Mark Kettenis
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