From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8418 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2003 17:48:59 -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 8411 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2003 17:48:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail32.megamailservers.com) (216.251.36.32) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Aug 2003 17:48:58 -0000 Received: from gaisler.com (h33n2fls33o837.telia.com [217.209.138.33]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail32.megamailservers.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7IHmvTZ078908 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:48:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Authenticated-User: jiri.gaisler.com Message-ID: <3F4111A9.4060600@gaisler.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:48:00 -0000 From: Jiri Gaisler Reply-To: jiri@gaisler.com Organization: Gaisler Research User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: The SPARC target Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00203.txt.bz2 Mark Kettenis wrote: > Folks, > > The SPARC target has been unmaintained for quite some time now[1] > (since november 2001) and it shows. It doesn't compile on FreeBSD, > and running the testsuite on FreeBSD/sparc64 (after fixing it), > Solaris 2.8 and NetBSD/sparc results in hundreds of unexpected > failures with quite a few unresolved testcases. I think the target is > bordering on (un)usability. I would like to point out that the sparc port works quite well for embedded (o/s unaware) 32-bit targets, at least up to gdb-5.3 . There are some (minor) quirks with stack unwinding to form the function backtrace, but overall it makes a good job. If you make a new (64-bit) backend, could the old 32-bit backend remain, at least the O/S independent parts? Thanks, Jiri Gaisler. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaisler Research, Stora Nygatan 13, 41108 Goteborg, Sweden, +46-31802405 fax: +46-31802407 email: info@gaisler.com, home page: www.gaisler.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------