[RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:42:45PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The XML code has both architecture and target components.  While the
> only target to implement it is remote.c, it's easy to keep it optional,
> and I'm willing.  But I've already got patches which use this for the
> sim/ simulators and for native arm-linux debugging, and I have requests
> sitting in my queue to do similar things for two native PowerPC
> variants (74xx and e500; and at least the 74xx is a popular native
> architecture).

... But we could probably find other ways to use the XML data files for
native/sim architectures now that I think about it; we could preprocess
them into C structures and store the C structures in CVS.  That's
actually not too hard.

So, optional can work, at least for now.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery