Re: How to use gdbserver for X86 host with arm-linux target ?

[Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>]

On 9/13/11 10:28 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
> [...]
> Seems like this another example where gdb suffers from having two code
> bases (gdb, gdbserver) to implement the same functionality.
>

Ironically, any discussion of sharing vs duplication would have been 
happening a few dozen steps away from where you and I were sitting at 
Cygnus back in 1993. :-)

I don't remember if there was much talk about it back then, but if there 
was, it probably seemed like an impossibility, especially considering 
the shoestring that Cygnus operated on at the time.  The whole idea of a 
target vector interface was still pretty new, and control flow was in 
reality much more intertwined and config-macro-dependent than the target 
vector pretended.

I think all new debugger designs are separating the low-level inferior 
control sufficiently to build debugger and server using the same code if 
desired.

Stan
stan@codesourcery.com