Re: [patch 3/4] Nios II gdbserver support

[Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>]

On 04/22/2013 03:05 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2013, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
>
> > +   Copyright (C) 2008, 2012, 2013
> > +   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> GDB now uses copyright year ranges, so
>
>     Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> (all on one line) and likewise for any other new files in this patch
> series.

Hmmm, I thought the year range was only acceptable when there were 
actually modifications to the file in all of those years?

> > +#ifndef PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA
> > +#define PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA 25
> > +#endif
>
> The same comment I made on the AArch64 port applies here: for native code
> in new ports, as opposed to use of new definitions in existing ports, you
> should just be able to assume recent-enough headers (at least until the
> Linux kernel port goes upstream, at which point the first upstream release
> with the code can be the minimum version of kernel headers supported)
> rather than having such #if conditionals.

I'm not sure what change you want here.  If I remove that block of code, 
the file fails to compile with the kernel headers currently being 
provided by Altera, which do not define PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA.

-Sandra