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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Romain Berrendonner <berrendo@ACT-Europe.FR>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: set processor command
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DBFE816.4050801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021029100028.GA1212@torino.act-europe.fr>

> Hi folks,
> 
> I did a small comparison between gdb 5.0, 5.1 and gdb 5.2.1 (configured as
> --target=powerpc-unknown-elf, solaris hosted) regarding the 'set processor'
> command. The output is:
> 
> gdb 5.0:
> --------
> GDB knows about the following PowerPC and RS6000 variants:
>   ppc-uisa  PowerPC UISA - a PPC processor as viewed by user-level code
>   rs6000    IBM RS6000 ("POWER") architecture, user-level view
>   403       IBM PowerPC 403
>   403GC     IBM PowerPC 403GC
>   505       Motorola PowerPC 505
>   860       Motorola PowerPC 860 or 850
>   601       Motorola PowerPC 601
>   602       Motorola PowerPC 602
>   603       Motorola/IBM PowerPC 603 or 603e
>   604       Motorola PowerPC 604 or 604e
>   750       Motorola/IBM PowerPC 750 or 740
> 
> gdb 5.1:
> --------
> Requires an argument. Valid arguments are rs6000:6000, rs6000:rs1, rs6000:rsc, rs6000:rs2, powerpc:common, powerpc:603, powerpc:EC603e, powerpc:604, powerpc:403, powerpc:601, powerpc:620, powerpc:630, powerpc:a35, powerpc:rs64ii, powerpc:rs64iii, powerpc:7400, powerpc:MPC8XX, auto.
> 
> gdb 5.2.1:
> ----------
> Requires an argument. Valid arguments are rs6000:6000, rs6000:rs1, rs6000:rsc, rs6000:rs2, powerpc:common, auto.
> 
> As you may see, the definition of the variants of powerpc vary considerably
> from one version to another, and I would like to know what will be the
> futur of this command: it looks like it is being deprecated, with less and
> less variants supported. Is that true ? Or is it only that the existing code
> is more generic ?

The code was rationalied (across a number of architectures) and also 
made very generic.  GDB ``supports'' any architecture/machine that is both:

- known by bfd
- known by gdb

It's included in the list.  The names are obtained via a query to BFD.

A useful new feature (BFD and GDB) might be to also obtain a brief 
description of the architecture/machine.

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-30 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-29  2:00 Romain Berrendonner
2002-10-30  6:09 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-11-01  6:18   ` Elena Zannoni

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