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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Switch shared library default backend to solib-target.c
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006152137.10649.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006151858.58007.pedro@codesourcery.com>

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 18:58:57, Pedro Alves wrote:
> This patch changes GDB to default to enabling target
> reported shared libraries.  I've applied it.
> 
> It does that by using solib-target.c by default, instead of
> solib-null.c.  The patch actually gets rid of solib-null.c entirely.
> This means that for example, a generic elf gdb build (e.g., arm-eabi, without a
> default OSABI), can be used to debug random RTOSs that report loaded
> shared libraries using the "qXfer:libraries:read" remote protocol
> packet.
> 
> Since solib-target.c behaves exactly the same as solib-null.c
> when the target doesn't implement the TARGET_OBJECT_LIBRARIES
> xfer, this is always either a win, or a nop.

I thought about this a bit and realized that it probably
warrants a NEWS entry.  I'll post one soon.

-- 
Pedro Alves

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-15 17:59 Pedro Alves
2010-06-15 18:05 ` Pedro Alves
2010-06-15 20:37 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2010-07-21 19:08   ` Pedro Alves
2010-07-21 21:16     ` Eli Zaretskii

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