HOWTO move a target from old style multiarched to new style multiarched?

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

Hi,

there were a lot of changes in the last couple of months to convert gdb
to a new way of doing things.  That's probably good but I don't know how
many people actually understand the whole process.  I must admit, I don't.

I'm under the impression the documentation is missing an important part.
There's some sort of description spread over the source code now but it
doesn't give a coherent picture and I also didn't find that in the docs.

Wouldn't it be possible to write a HOWTO for the poor developer soul,
who's left behind with a target with now using 80% deprecated functions?
IMHO, that HOWTO written by somebody who knows what's going on could
tells us

  The datastructure `struct bits' is replaced by `struct pieces'.
  This requires to use a new set of functions...

  Create functions foo(), bar() and baz(), doing...

  If you use function new_and_shiny() you must also replace
  old_and_dirty(), otherwise...

  The functions old() and cruft() are replaced by glitter() which
  returns yadda...

  Function ugly() is not used anymore and can be removed without
  substitution...

and so on.  That would be very helpful and probably speed up the
conversion of targets to "new style" enormously.

Or did I just miss the documentation on this?

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
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