Time for a HP/PA hackathon?

[Andrew Cagney]

> ac> - Does it start?
> ac> There's a good chance GDB will panic during initialization ...
> 
> It starts, but it can't read executable files.
> 
> ac> - If it starts, the output from:
> ac> (gdb) maint print architecture architecture
> ac> (gdb) shell grep -i deprecated architecture
> 
> See the typescript below.
> 
> ac> - what happens when:
> ac> ./gdb .../advance
> 
> "not in executable format: Bad value"

Um, in a word, "huh?" :-)  I think that's caused by something else. 
Looking at the message:
   if (!bfd_check_format (so->abfd, bfd_object))
     {
       error ("\"%s\": not in executable format: %s.",
              name, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
     }
which shouldn't be affected by this change.  sigh.

Andrew