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RE: [RFA- v2] Remove CANNOT_STEP_HW_WATCHPOINTS related code (was fix for bug 11531)
- From: "Pierre Muller" <pierre dot muller at ics-cnrs dot unistra dot fr>
- To: "'Mark Kettenis'" <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- Cc: <pedro at codesourcery dot com>, <eliz at gnu dot org>, <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:52:17 +0200
- Subject: RE: [RFA- v2] Remove CANNOT_STEP_HW_WATCHPOINTS related code (was fix for bug 11531)
- References: <000301cae303$d6d068b0$84713a10$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> <201004231915.49375.pedro@codesourcery.com> <002101cae3c0$a56276c0$f0276440$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> <201004252110.20098.pedro@codesourcery.com> <003c01cae515$41e52290$c5af67b0$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> <201004261127.o3QBRAc1027039@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
> > Index: src/gdb/configure.tgt
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/configure.tgt,v
> > retrieving revision 1.231
> > diff -u -p -r1.231 configure.tgt
> > --- src/gdb/configure.tgt 20 Apr 2010 00:21:33 -0000 1.231
> > +++ src/gdb/configure.tgt 26 Apr 2010 07:47:51 -0000
> > @@ -197,8 +197,10 @@ i[34567]86-*-solaris2.1[0-9]* | x86_64-*
> > i386-sol2-tdep.o sol2-tdep.o \
> > corelow.o solib.o solib-svr4.o"
> > ;;
> > -i[34567]86-*-solaris*)
> > - # Target: Solaris x86
> > +i[34567]86-*-solaris2.[8-9] )
> > + # Target: Solaris x86, only versions 2.8 and 2.9
> > + # Versions <= 2.7 suffer a bug that was handled in older versions
> of
>
> Can you add i[34567]86-*-solaris2.[0-7] to the list of obsolete
> targets when doing this? That way people get a clear message when
> trying to configure GDB on older versions of Solaris.
After Pedro's comments that these targets
can still work (just that watchpoints might create problems)
I dropped for now this part of the patch.
Is it possible and worthwhile to add some
warning about this issue in configure.tgt?
Pierre