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Re: gdbserver/{<foo>,<os>,<bar>}.c?; Was: [rfa] gdbserver overhaul


>> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:57:40 -0400
>> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> 
>> > 
> 
>> >> or if it did it couldn't use any of these low-* files right?
> 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Sorry, I don't understand this.  How is the DJGPP port different from
>> > any other port in this respect?
> 
>> 
>> I don't think DJGPP's low/nat interface looks like UNIX's ptrace() or 
>> /procfs so much of the existing low-* code wouldn't be used.
> 
> 
> That's true, but the low-* files are supposed to be compiled on the
> target system, not on the host, right?  If so, all but one of these
> low-* files is irrelevant for other platforms as well, right?

Yes.  My understanding of DanielJ's cleanup is that it better structures 
(separate os/cpu specific and generic files) the unix low code.

Andrew



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