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Re: Who owns gdbserver?
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Who owns gdbserver?
- From: Quality Quorum <qqi at world dot std dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:40:59 -0400
- cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > My current inclination is that, after we enumerate precisely what
> > interfaces are needed, we may need to break some of the nat and tdep
> > files up into smaller pieces, so that gdbserver can link in the parts
> > it really needs - and the parts it can reasonably include the support
> > code for.
>
>
> Sounds good in theory, there is a catch-22 though. Doing any cleanup is
> a lot easier with everything multi-arch.
>
> I'm happy for, short term, there to be a slightly bloated GDBserver, if
> it means that people concentrate more on getting things multi-arched.
IMHO, the only thing truly shared between gdbserver and gdb
is register map - so it seems feasible to me to keep gdbserver
as an entity completely separate from gdb.
>
> Andrew
>
Thanks,
Aleksey