From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24256 invoked by alias); 18 Jun 2002 13:11:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24230 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2002 13:11:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO touchme.toronto.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2002 13:11:23 -0000 Received: from toenail.toronto.redhat.com (unknown [172.16.14.211]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6EBB8004 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:11:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from fche@localhost) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5IDBMv32542; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:11:22 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: toenail.toronto.redhat.com: fche set sender to fche@redhat.com using -f To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Obsolete GDB's m32r support References: <3D0E7DF7.90409@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:11:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3D0E7DF7.90409@cygnus.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 cagney wrote: > [...] This target does not use GDB's multi-arch framework and all > such targets are either being obsoleted or multi-arched. [...] Can you summarize the technical reasons for this dichotomy of outcomes? In what way does the presence of old targets pose a technical challenge to more modern multiarch'd ones? In other words, what technical reasons exist to not allow old targets to stick around as they are? - FChE