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Re: RFC/gdbarch: Make OS ABI a real member of the gdbarch
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 28 Dec 2002 13:38:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: RFC/gdbarch: Make OS ABI a real member of the gdbarch
- References: <20021228001850.GA2127@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> I was working on a "set osabi" command again this morning. I got just about
> everything to work with just local changes to osabi.c, until I hit a real
> stumbling block: there was absolutely no way to figure out what the
> _current_ OS ABI was. It was stored in the tdep struct of every
> architecture that actually recognized the field. That much code duplication
> tipped me off that it would probably be easier to move the enum into the
> gdbarch vector; in fact, to move it into the struct gdbarch_info used to
> select. Everything got much easier after that, although it was a bit
> tedious - another one of those hundred-line changelogs.
Yes please!
Mark