From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9055 invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2003 15:50:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9047 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 15:50:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2003 15:50:58 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1882B5F; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:46:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3EFB1542.3020308@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:50:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Warkentin Cc: "Gdb@Sources.Redhat.Com" Subject: Re: [RFC] target defined OSABI sniffer References: <040001c33bf1$4ed98060$0202040a@catdog> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00492.txt.bz2 > It seems that a lot of effort has been put into the multi-arch stuff but > most of it centers around recognizing a binary and setting things up based > on that. I'm pondering whether that is the right approach in all cases. > Shouldn't the target be telling gdb what it should be doing rather than the > other way around? Yes. Will need to read the rest of your e-mail later :-( BTW, there's also: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/papers/multi-arch/real-multi-arch/index.html#SEC40 as a second discussion point. Andrew