Re: [rfc] Remove current_gdbarch register handling from symbol readers

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:14:39 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> So overall it seems that *no* target uses COFF/SDB debug info as its
> default format any more; those that still support it at all also use
> a more powerful format as default.  Under those circumstances, is there
> any benefit to continuing to support that format in GDB, given that it
> becomes more and more diffcult to test that this support actually
> still works?

DJGPP needs support for the COFF debug info because the DJGPP port of
Emacs can only be built with -gcoff.  That's because no one ported
unexec.c in Emacs to DWARF-2 debug info embedded in COFF binary
format.  I don't expect such changes in unexec.c any time soon.

> > The problem is that DJGPP does not support expect, so the the test
> > suite cannot be run.  I can run some tests manually, so if you or
> > someone else could tell which test may be affected by this change, I
> > can try running them.
> 
> Pretty much any access to an in-register local variable or parameter
> should break if the change is wrong.

OK, I will run at least some of them.