Re: Unfinished projects

[Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:55:11AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>>Andrew's sudden departure from GDB maintenance seems to left a
>>large number of projects in mid-process; as I'm picking through
>>the latest sources trying to figure out how to merge with Apple's
>>bits, it's very confusing as to how the new way is supposed to
>>work when it's not documented anywhere and there's maybe only
>>one example of a configuration using it.
>>
>>So my question is - what should we do about all these? Are
>>some of these intrinsically impossible to complete without
>>the right collection of hardware? If so, then maybe we need
>>to get tougher about dropping support for some targets, or
>>else abandon the projected change. I'd like to work on updating
>>the GDB internals manual too, for my own understanding if
>>nothing else; should I describe old ways, new ways, or both?
>>
>
>Could you give some specific examples that you're looking at?  I've got
>no way to answer your questions without more details.  For each one,
>there's probably someone on the list who knows how it's supposed to
>work.
>
I was being purposefully vague because I wanted to think about
general strategy, and because I don't even know how many there
are. Specific things I've noticed include async for native, the
infptrace vs inf-ptrace situation, and then there's everything
with "deprecated" somewhere in the name.

So that would be a start - what are all the main incomplete
transitions in the code right now?

Stan