From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30429 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2003 13:31:48 -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 30421 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2003 13:31:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (172.16.49.200) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 19 Feb 2003 13:31:48 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7B32D37; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:36:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E538861.4090409@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:31:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Bartlett Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Summary of differences between FSF GDB and ST's Micro Connectversion References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00340.txt.bz2 > Hi, > > A couple of comments from SuperH... > > The current version of gdb available from ST is based on 5.2.1. > > There are indeed some changes that can only really be classed as hacks. This > was mainly in response to pressure to release something usable to users and > our changes should not be considered to be complete. > We intend to rebase our changes on 5.3 when time permits and also to resolve > in as clean a fashion as possible all 'workarounds' that have been > implemented. > > We also intend to submit the changes for consideration by the maintainers in > due course. This willingness to get it right is very much appreciated. > This is very much 'work in progress'. > > I don't really want to go into the reasons for the introduction of the > 'fork' command right now as the explanation would be somewhat lengthy. If > anybody's interested then please contact me directly. Just an aside, are you aware of: (gdb) target remote |program that is, talk to `program' using the remote protocol. Andrew