[PATCH/RFA] Generic OS ABI handling for PowerPC

[Kevin Buettner]

On May 28,  3:26pm, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:46:29PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
>  > Umm... rs6000-tdep.c references ppc_linux_* functions too.  Are
>  > you suggesting that they too should be moved to rs6000-tdep.c?
> 
> No it doesn't.  My patch moves all references to those functions into
> ppc-linux-tdep.c only, and uses the GDB OS ABI stuff to hook it in.

I see.  Up 'til now I hadn't looked at the new machinery you added.

Nicely done.

>  >     ppc-sysv-tdep.c	- PowerPC SysV ABI
> 
> I'm happy to move the ppc_sysv stuff into ppc-sysv-tdep.c, then, for now,
> and add ppc-sysv-tdep.o to all the targets that currently use rs6000-tdep.o.
> 
> Would that be an acceptable interim solution?

Yeah, I like this better.

> It seems certainly better than requiring all PowerPC targets to
> slurp in ppc-linux-tdep.o (which contains a lot of code that is
> completely useless for NetBSD, for example).

Hmm.  I see where you're coming from, but be careful in how you go
about it because we don't want to preclude the building of a cross
debugger which can debug both NetBSD/PPC and Linux/PPC binaries
(connected to a suitable target of course).

Kevin