Re: Triggering qSymbol packets

Jim Blandy
2006-01-19T01:01:35Z

On 1/18/06, John Williams <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> OK. I'm guessing a back-port of the fixup will be much easer (short
> term) than a forward port of the entire arch. Am I maybe
> over-estimating the work involved in migrating an arch from gdb 5.3 to 6.4?

A lot has changed. The frame unwinding interface is eccentric in a
different way than it used to be. :) Actually, it's much more
well-defined, and well-behaved. The gdbarch methods for calling
functions and extracting their return values have changed. So there's
a lot of work entailed in bringing a port forward.