Re: [rfa] Eliminate supply_gregset etc. from -tdep files

["Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:18:24PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > there are two -tdep files (m68k-tdep.c and mips-linux-tdep.c) that contain
> > implementations of the supply_greget family of functions.  This is incorrect;
> > those function should only ever be provided by native support files.
> 
> "Incorrect" may be a bit strong.  core-regset.c needs them to link; at
> one point, that was the right way to implement core file support.  I
> don't remember how the history worked out for mips, since it doesn't
> look like the version in the FSF repository ever used core-regset.o,
> but I think that was the original motivation.

Right, but I thought core-regset.o was also supposed to used only as a 
native support file, never in an .mt file.  Was this ever done in the
past?

Anyway, the reason why I'd like to get of the use in -tdep files is that
it would prevent building GDB with multiple architecture targets built-in
at the same time, if multiple tdep files define different copies of
routines with the same name ...

(B.t.w. it doesn't look too hard to get completely rid of core-regset.o
at this time, but it would need someone to test on i386-gnu, alpha-freebsd,
sparc-solaris ...   I can take care of ia64-linux.)

> Anyway, now there are no targets that use core-regset.o in .mt files,
> and no good reason to do so.  So now it's incorrect :-)  This patch is
> OK.

Thanks, committed.

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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