Re: [PATCH 0/2] Additional maintenance command for dumping target descriptions

[Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>]

I messed up the in-reply-to header while posting a second iteration of
this patch series.  The replacement patches ended up here:

  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-June/169419.html

Thanks,
Andrew

* Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> [2020-06-11 11:41:29 +0100]:

> After some fun and games debugging some target description issues I
> finally got fed up enough to implement something that I've wanted for
> a while.  A mechanism to ask GDB what target description was sent from
> the target.
> 
> Patch #1 was a quick hack to `maint print c-tdesc', which was easy,
> and did give me the information I needed, but the output format isn't
> great for what I wanted, so
> 
> Patch #2 allows GDB developers to see in XML form the description that
> was sent from the target.
> 
> Feedback welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> Andrew Burgess (2):
>   gdb: Allow target description to be dumped even when it is remote
>   gdb: New maintenance command to print XML target description
> 
>  gdb/ChangeLog                               |  17 +++
>  gdb/NEWS                                    |   6 +
>  gdb/doc/ChangeLog                           |   5 +
>  gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo                         |   9 ++
>  gdb/target-descriptions.c                   | 102 +++++++++++++++-
>  gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog                     |   6 +
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump-01.xml |  10 ++
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump-02.xml |  27 +++++
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump.exp    | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  gdbsupport/ChangeLog                        |  13 ++
>  gdbsupport/tdesc.cc                         |  99 +++++++++++-----
>  gdbsupport/tdesc.h                          |  15 +++
>  12 files changed, 399 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump-01.xml
>  create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump-02.xml
>  create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.xml/maint-xml-dump.exp
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.4
>