Re: Merging OC gdb with official gdb

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at ges dot redhat dot com>]

> Hi!
>
> At opencores (www.opencores.org) we have a gdb-5.0 port to our or1k 
> architecture.
> We would like to join our sources into official version.
> Your current BFD already has needed or32 support.
> I have seen, that gdb went thought many internal changes, like regcache, etc.
>
> I've looked at documentation, and it is outdated. Although there are promising 
> mails, like below one ;), there is not enough info for me to break through.
The current documentation is being updated (slowly).  Also see the thread:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-07/msg00202.html

but unless your architecture is really wierd, nothing should be needed.

As for your architecture the main things are:

- getting it to strictly use the multi-arch framework (the exception 
being if your platform has shared libraries)

- getting it to comply to gnu (and GDB) coding standards

- FSF paperwork

Otherwize it should drop in.  Take a look at one of the very recent 
targets (xstormy16?).

Andrew


> ------------
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:49:07 -0500
>
> Richard what follows is the short obscure answer (sorry).  I'll try to 
> do the long (add to documentation answer, in about a week - this really 
> does need to be documented.
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>
> I would like to ask you, if anybody is willing to help me update our current 
> version of gdb or at least take a quick look at it and tell me how things 
> should work not.
>
> http://www.opencores.org/cvsweb.shtml/or1k/gdb-5.0/
>
> thanks for your help,
> Marko