From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8212 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2008 14:54:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 8203 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Aug 2008 14:54:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from delta357.server4you.de (HELO delta357.server4you.de) (85.25.136.128) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:53:23 +0000 Received: from [62.12.134.36] (helo=PowerMac-G5.local) by delta357.server4you.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KUjd3-0002nn-HL; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:53:14 +0200 Message-ID: <48A83B53.8070003@emmenlauer.de> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:21:00 -0000 From: Mario Emmenlauer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Dewar CC: Stan Shebs , Stan Shebs , "Dr. Rolf Jansen" , gdb@sourceware.org References: <48A6E7E9.3070004@emmenlauer.de> <958EAB4C-D513-4823-9111-25A6F5743307@surtec.com> <48A71019.7060503@codesourcery.com> <48A74D74.5040707@emmenlauer.de> <48A76233.4090201@earthlink.net> <48A76541.1020201@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <48A76541.1020201@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 62.12.134.36 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mario@emmenlauer.de Subject: Re: gdb supported on powerpc-apple-darwin ? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:09:08 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on delta357.server4you.de) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00211.txt.bz2 Hi, Robert Dewar wrote: > Stan Shebs wrote: >> A concerted effort by one person (either inside or outside Apple) >> could probably get the two versions back in sync, but it's a >> heavy-duty hacking project that will likely take a number of months of >> fulltime effort. > > Interestingly, for GNAT we face the issue of getting an Ada supported > GDB working on x86 Mac's, and we have to decide whether to move all the > Ada stuff to the Apple version, or to tackle the merge. Would 'tackle the merge' mean dedicate the needed programmer time? This would be a huge step for the community... Still, I think it would be crucial that the apple developers are inter- ested in the merge, too. It might be feasibly for outside developers to participate in (or even do the major part of) the work, however maintaining it in the long run is another story. Only if a common patch-base is accepted, I would see succes in the long run. Having a separate Apple fork is no problem so as long as someone will commit to back- and forth-propa- gating changes between both projects. Even better would of course be a single FSF gdb with full-featured darwin support. What do others think? Cheers, Mario