[RFC] Suggested ways to remove the need for xm-go32.h

Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
Fri Sep 24 14:35:00 GMT 2004


>>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:03:12 +0200
>>> From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
>>> 
>>> First I thought that's a good idea, but then again, it requires every
>>> system to support /dev/null.  I'm not sure you'd find a filename which
>>> all systems can agree to.
> 
> 
> I agree; I think it will be downright impossible to find such a file
> name.  Native configurations could all use /dev/null, but the remote
> embedded targets are another story...

The question to ask is ``do all hosts on which GDB will run support 
this?''.  Since this stuff is host dependant, the target (native or 
remote) doesn't matter.

Andrew




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