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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
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To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
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Subject: Re: Towards truly multi-arching the i386
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>   > Mark
>    > 
>    > Supported targets
>    > -----------------
>    > 
>    > i386-*-aout*
>    > i386-*-coff*
>    > i386-*-elf*
>    These three should be identical.
> 
> Not quite.  i386-*-elf* uses a register numbering scheme for stabs
> (stabs-in-ELF to be precise) that differs from traditional stabs used
> for a.out and COFF.

Ah!  So BFD could be built differently but GDB would be identical - like 
the sh*-* target.

M'kay,
Andrew