Re: patch to use target specific .gdbinit file

["Kris Warkentin" <kewarken at qnx dot com>]

> > Here's a question: does a multi-targetted gdb know what it's targetting
at
> > the point of reading the .gdbinit or is this determined later?  Is it
> > switchable per session?  I'm thinking that another possibility is to
have it
> > check for .gdbinit-$TARGET at the time that the target is determined.
>
> To clarify something here, target and architecture are separate but very
> related.  GDB configured for a certain TARGET, will support one or more
> architectures.  The x86-64, for instance, also supports i386.
>
> For a normal GDB session, an architecture will be selected twice.  Once
> for the default, and once based on the file that is loaded.  The second
> selection may occure before, during or after, .gdbinit parsing.  The
> `target' however, won't change.

So, to clarify further, a single gdb binary can only support a single target
but multiple architectures?  If this is the case then your method of
enabling this at config time would be just fine.  I was thinking of a (for
instance) ppc/x86 gdb but I didn't think that was possible which was what I
wanted to ask.

cheers,

Kris