Re: [PATCH 1/2] Port gdbserver to GNU/Hurd

[Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>]

Hi!

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:11:02 +0100, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/03/2013 10:38 AM, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > [strategy]
> 
> I've been thinking about this this morning, after seeing these
> patches.
> 
> For new gdbserver ports, this path just seems to swim further away from
> a full sharing approach, by adding lots duplication as first step, [...]

> So my idea would be, [...]

Understood, and yes, your argumentation is reasonable.

> I'd do this [by]
> literally moving gdbserver/gnu-low.c on top of gdb/gnu-nat.c (etc.), and
> use git diff to guide me through, in identifying what would need to
> be restored, and guarded with #if[n]def GDBSERVER.  [...]

Yes, that's a nice technique for displaying and integrating the
differences between the existing Hurd native port's files and the new
gdbserver port's.  Yue, does the approach of diffing the files as Pedro
described make sense to you?  Please tell if you need help with how to
use Git to do that, etc.

> Could we try that approach?

Thanks for the input!


GrÃÃe,
 Thomas

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