RE: Delete remote VxWorks RDB support?

RE: Delete remote VxWorks RDB support?

[Don Bowman]

From: Andrew Cagney

>Hello,
>I found this gem, added 10-May-01, in gdb/TODO:
>> Obsolete the protocols:
>> 
>> RDB?
>> 
>> ``As of version 5.3, WindRiver has removed the RDB server (RDB
>> protocol support is built into gdb).''  -- Till.

>See: WDB support for the vxWorks target
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-05/msg00041.html

 ...

we are still using RDB & Sandvine. Not sure how many other 
people still use it. VxWorks is something people don't update the
core of too rapidly. VxWorks 5.3 is basically the same as VxWorks 5.2.
RDB is not actually removed from 5.3, its just not configured on
by default.

Our reason for using RDB was there was no WDB support in the standard gdb
distribution, and we'd switched to gcc 3 stream, which windriver-supplied
gdb (4.13 I think) didn't understand the debug format of at all for C++.

I suspect most people using vxworks are also using the windriver-supplied
versions of gdb/gcc, which are (as of a couple of years ago), using WDB.

Re: Delete remote VxWorks RDB support?

[Joel Brobecker]

> I suspect most people using vxworks are also using the windriver-supplied
> versions of gdb/gcc, which are (as of a couple of years ago), using WDB.

Actually, WRS' supplyed version of GDB uses WTX now. The communication
over WDB is handled by the target server.

-- 
Joel

Delete remote VxWorks RDB support?

[Andrew Cagney]

Hello,

I found this gem, added 10-May-01, in gdb/TODO:

> Obsolete the protocols:
> 
> RDB?
> 
> ``As of version 5.3, WindRiver has removed the RDB server (RDB
> protocol support is built into gdb).''  -- Till.

See: WDB support for the vxWorks target
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-05/msg00041.html

It would affect the files:

cagney@nettle$ ls *vx*
remote-vx.c         remote-vx68.c       remote-vxmips.c     remote-vxsparc.c
vx-share:
CVS          ptrace.h     vxWorks.h    xdr_ld.h     xdr_rdb.c
README       regPacket.h  wait.h       xdr_ptrace.c xdr_rdb.h
dbgRpcLib.h  vxTypes.h    xdr_ld.c     xdr_ptrace.h

Only thing is, there have been recent bug reports (against 5.1.1 mind):
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=329

The current code, which is heavily dependant on deprecated_registers[], 
needs a serious upgrade.

Andrew