From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20532 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2008 22:57:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 20522 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Aug 2008 22:57:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:56:27 +0000 Received: from [68.108.140.98] (helo=macbook-2.local) by elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KUrAI-0000Wa-DJ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:56:02 -0400 Message-ID: <48A8AC80.4060900@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:52:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Dewar CC: Mario Emmenlauer , Stan Shebs , "Dr. Rolf Jansen" , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: gdb supported on powerpc-apple-darwin ? 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-ELNK-Trace: ae6f8838ff913eba0cc1426638a40ef67e972de0d01da940e8a09f73630187b0791ebd0d51f2ba02350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00214.txt.bz2 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. I think updating the Ada bits in Apple's version would be easier; you know how the Ada bits are supposed to work, and there are Ada bits in Apple's GDB already, it's just that they are from 2005. Stan