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Re: ARM RDI

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, GDB <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:44:37 -0500
Subject: Re: ARM RDI
References: <438B8FAD.1020804@codesourcery.com> <1133259214.32658.36.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:13:34AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:15, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > In my quest to make things build on Windows, I see that ARM GDB doesn't
> > quite build for Windows do the fact that rdi-share doesn't build without
> > angeldll.h.  However, rdi-share does still build on GNU/Linux, where
> > rdi-share isn't required.
> > 
> > Since RDI has been declared obsolete by ARM, and since the version in
> > GDB is even more obsolete than that, I'm not sure that there's much
> > point in continuing to try to support RDI.
> > 
> > There seem to be several options, ordered, IMHO, from best to worst.
> > 
> > 1) Remove rdi-share from GDB entirely.
> 
> I think this one is probably best now...  I discussed it with Andrew at
> the Summit and we agreed it was the way to go.  But like dejagnu removal
> it's taking a long time to finally do it...

Does anyone object?  If not, let's just do it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

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