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Re: gdbserver version
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Girish Shilamkar <girish at linsyssoft dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:19:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: gdbserver version
- References: <1138609455.3225.14.camel@krypton>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:54:15PM +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote:
> Hi,
> gdbserver Makefile consists of following line:
>
> # Perhaps should come from parent Makefile
> VERSION = gdbserver-4.12.3
>
> Why is it different from version number of gdb i.e. 6.4, 6.3 etc?
> And I hope gdbserver having same version number will work gdb's with
> different version i.e. gdbserver is from which build (gdb 6.4 build or
> gdb 6.3 build) won't matter if gdbserver version no. are same ?
That version is, as you noticed on gdb-patches, not currently used.
Thus it hasn't been updated in a long long time.
I don't think gdbserver needs its own version number; it should just
share GDB's. I'll respond to the patch separately.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery