Re: ia64 target?

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> On Mar 13,  5:51pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> > What is a good ia64 target?  The maintainer file currently notes:
> >
> >         ia64            (--target=ia64-elf broken)
> >
> > if I try to configure that, nothing interesting happens (the GDB
> > directory didn't appear to even be created).
> >
> > Could someone suggest a better generic ia64 target that can be used to
> > build a cross debug ia64 GDB.
> 
> How about...
> 
>     --target=ia64-unknown-linux

I'll take this one, thanks.

> Of course, this only takes care of the build portion.  If you want to
> (somehow) test the resulting gdb, you need to have access to an IA-64
> machine running Linux or a simulator (running Linux).

I don't think this is necessary.  It is for someone making purely
mechanical changes (eg moving a function declaration, deleting a global
variable).

	Andrew