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Re: [patch/rfc] Don't complain about unknown OSABI
- From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at ges dot redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 08:51:12 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Don't complain about unknown OSABI
- Organization: Wasabi Systems, Inc.
- References: <3D5FC00D.50001@ges.redhat.com>
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 11:41:01AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> The attached patch removes the warning message that is printed when the
> OSABI is unknown (all the sniffers failed).
>
> When debugging an embedded executable, there is no OSABI info. Hence I
> don't think the warning should be issued. This can be seen when
> debugging a GCC created, mips-elf executable.
>
> thoughts?
This has always been kind of a gray area ... There's really an argument
for doing it either way, and the warning in fact came from the ancestors
of the common code ... but, you're probably right that the best overall
solution would be to just remove the warning.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>