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Re: Xtensa port
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:10 -0700, Maxim Grigoriev wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Thanks much for the quick response.
> > At a quick first glance, it looks pretty good.
> > Do you have a copyright assignment on file
> >
> Once in a while, Daniel Jacobowitz mentioned that he has all the
> necessary paper work for Xtensa port. I hope it still true.
> > One question -- is there a reason for splitting xtensa-config.c
> > into a separate file? Not necessarily a problem, but it seems
> > to be mostly stuff that would traditionally go in the xxx-tdep.c
> > file (such as the struct gdbarch_tdep object).
> >
> It's because Xtensa is all about configurability. Historically,
> Tensilica uses a special configuration called FSF for all our FSF
> submissions. It's been used for Xtensa GCC and BFD work. Now, I'm trying
> to use it for GDB. So when we have to deal with a different
> configuration of the Xtensa processor all we need is to update
> xtensa-config.c file.
Ah, but that's what we have a thing called multi-arch for!
Wouldn't you rather have a single gdb that could debug *any*
of your xtensa configurations (as opposed to having to build
a separate gdb for each one)?