From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: GDB Discussion <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ia64 target?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <3AAF8CD4.9B750CED@cygnus.com>
References: <3AAEA47E.339FF4BD@cygnus.com> <1010314052325.ZM17343@ocotillo.lan>
X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00106.html

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> On Mar 13,  5:51pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> > What is a good ia64 target?  The maintainer file currently notes:
> >
> >         ia64            (--target=ia64-elf broken)
> >
> > if I try to configure that, nothing interesting happens (the GDB
> > directory didn't appear to even be created).
> >
> > Could someone suggest a better generic ia64 target that can be used to
> > build a cross debug ia64 GDB.
> 
> How about...
> 
>     --target=ia64-unknown-linux

I'll take this one, thanks.

> Of course, this only takes care of the build portion.  If you want to
> (somehow) test the resulting gdb, you need to have access to an IA-64
> machine running Linux or a simulator (running Linux).

I don't think this is necessary.  It is for someone making purely
mechanical changes (eg moving a function declaration, deleting a global
variable).

	Andrew