Re: [RFA] New register definition interface

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Nick Duffek wrote:

> Speaking of gdbarch.sh changes, what do you think about the idea of
> translating gdbarch.sh into C and automatically generating gdbarch.[ch] as
> transient compile-time entities?  Running gdbarch.sh takes about 25
> seconds on my 650MHz Pentium, and I often forget to run it after applying
> or reverting patches that change it.

I wish :-)

The plan is to eventually have things autogenerated when GDB is
configured with --enable-maintainer-mode.  Unfortunatly it can't be made
the default as you can bet your bottom dollar that gdbarch.sh will break
on some critical platform shell :-(

I'll add this to the TODO file.

	Andrew