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Re: Who owns gdbserver?
> Daniel> No one admits to it, in MAINTAINERS at least...
>
> I think Stan did, among other things. As I recall, he realized that
> he wasn't in a position to maintain things properly and stepped back
> from that role. No one picked up it up since then.
Yes, that is correct. I'll update the hall of fame.
> I'm not sure I'm up to the task of taking on gdbserver on a full time
> basis, but as a blanket-write-priv maintainer and given my interests
> with remote, I'll certainly help you along.
>
> Daniel> On a related note, I'm trying to think of a way to eliminate
> Daniel> some of the crasser code duplication between gdb and gdbserver
> Daniel> - or rather, right now it's mostly a lack of code duplication,
> Daniel> causing gdbserver not to work terribly well.
>
> This has been a outstanding issue for some time.
I know of the following:
o G packet layout
Here it has been suggested that
some G packet spec be created so that
both GDb and GDBSERVER can use it with
out duplicating that spec.
o other arch info
Core GDB is using multi-arch which means
that gdbserver can no longer use the
the current suite of macros with out some
level of change.
o ptrace et.al.
Since these tend to use gdbarch info they
have the same problem.
Andrew