From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: multi-arch and breaking ``maintenance only'' targets (eg a29k)
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 20:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BE0BD2B.6050609@cygnus.com> (raw)
Hello,
The a29k target currently builds but isn't being maintained. Post 5.1
it will either need to be multi-arched or will find its self dieing a
slow death. That death, however, may come sooner than some might think.
I'm about to post a patch that eliminates the macro HOST_BYTE_ORDER from
GDB. Unfortunatly the a29k target has code like:
#ifdef TARGET_BYTE_ORDER == HOST_BYTE_ORDER
#define MD(X)
.....
#else
#define MD(X)
.....
#endif
and that will no longer work. Consequently, I intend adding a #error
... to the a29k so that it is clearly broken.
With this comes a definite shift in policy. Up until now developers
were to expected to keep non-multi-arch targets compiling. If the above
goes through, it will mean that non-multi-arch targets that are not
being maintained can be broken on a case by case basis.
enjoy,
Andrew
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2001-10-31 20:12 Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-11-27 23:40 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-11-19 10:57 ` Andrew Cagney
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