From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13178 invoked by alias); 13 May 2002 03:27:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13167 invoked from network); 13 May 2002 03:27:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 May 2002 03:27:07 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1403E08; Sun, 12 May 2002 23:27:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CDF328E.5000100@cygnus.com> Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 20:27:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Towards truly multi-arching the i386 References: <200205122204.g4CM4HU27541@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00134.txt.bz2 > The i386 has been partially multi-arch'ed for some time now, but only > the bare minimum has been done. Therefore I decided to put some real > effort into it. I think I've tackled most of the difficulties, and > made some real progress. Unfortunately there are quite a number of > old targets that I'd really like to drop in this process. I made some > lists with targets: targets that are already working satisfactory, > targets that I intend to support (possibly with the help of others), > one target that's really redundant, and a few targets that I'd like to > obsolete. Please take a good look at that last look, and yell at me > if you can think of a reason not to obsolete any of those targets. If > I don't hear anything within the next few weeks they will be lost > forever :-). See: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdbint_15.html#SEC117 http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdbint_15.html#SEC153 > Mark > > Supported targets > ----------------- > > i386-*-aout* > i386-*-coff* > i386-*-elf* These three should be identical. > i386-*-freebsd* > i386-*-linux* > i386-*-msdosdjgpp* > i386-*-netbsdelf* > i386-*-netbsd* > i386-*-netware* Can this go? I think it is the old old Novell thing. > i386-*-openbsd* > i386-*-pe* ChrisF would like the PE deleted! It's been bug reported. > i386-*-solaris* Canonicalized to i386-pc-solaris2 > i386-*-sysv4* > i386-*-vxworks* > > To be supported > --------------- > > i386-*-cygwin* > i386-*-isc* Issue with START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED What is this machine? > i386-*-lynxos* I think this can go (or at least an attempt made). > i386-*-sco3.2v5* Several issues > i386-*-sco* Issue with START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED > i386-*-sysv4.2* UNIXWARE define, ptid issues > i386-*-sysv5* UNIXWARE define, ptid issues > i386-*-sysv* Issue with START_INFERIOR_TRAPS_EXPECTED > > Redundant targets > ----------------- > i386-ncr-* Caught by i386-*-sysv4* > > Obsolete targets > ---------------- > > i386-sequent-bsd* > i386-sequent-sysv4* > i386-sequent-sysv* > i386-*-aix* > i386-*-bsd* > i386-*-mach3* > i386-*-os9k Obsoleting os9kread is on the to do list as well. > i386-*-osf1mk* > i386-*-sco3.2v4* Broken Have fun! Andrew