RFA: ia64 portion of libunwind patch

[Andrew Cagney]

>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:38:43 -0500, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:
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>   Andrew> Draging that entire buffer (128k in the case of a program
>   Andrew> like GDB) across the remote link is going to raise a few
>   Andrew> eyebrows so a careful examination is justified.
> 
> Oh.  Can you remind me why gdb wouldn't be grabbing the unwind table
> from the ELF binary instead?  You don't drag the debug info over the
> remote link either, right?

Because it may not have the elf binary (at least not locally), and it 
may not have debug info.  People still expect GDB to do something 
reasonable in those cases.

Andrew