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Re: [RFA] arm-pikeos: software single step
> Joel> The challenge is that, up to now, the PikeOS target was in all respects
> Joel> identical to a baremetal target as far as GDB was concerned, meaning
> Joel> we were using the baremetal osabi for this target too. This is no longer
> Joel> possible, and we need to introduce a new OSABI variant.
>
> I don't really know anything about this area, but...
>
> Is there any chance of introducing some flag into the object files so
> that the heuristic could be removed at some future point?
I don't really see this, because we don't really control the platform.
> Joel> +
> Joel> +static void
> Joel> +arm_pikeos_init_abi (struct gdbarch_info info, struct gdbarch *gdbarch)
>
> The usual thing about functions needing an intro comment.
OK, I will do that. I saw it, and grepped around, saw that it wasn't
really done for the few spot checks I did, so thought it was just
so obvious that it was deliberately omitted.
> Joel> + { "Pikeos", NULL },
>
> The email spelled it "PikeOS", so maybe it should read that way here as
> well.
Indeed, that's a good point.
Thanks for the review, Tom. New version of the patch coming up.
--
Joel