[RFA] Darwin/x86 port (v2 - part 0)

[Mark Kettenis]

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:43:08 -0800
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> (trying to take my AdaCore hat off)
> 
> > My natural inclination is to accept the code into the trunk after review 
> > - I suspect that the next round of changes will be more invasive into 
> > the rest of GDB, and it would be easier to consider each of those 
> > separately from the basic port. But, I have a track record of being too 
> > optimistic on this strategy, ahem. :-) What do other people think?
> 
> I think that's a good approach. In this case, it is even more attractive
> as the changes have remained uninvasive so far, so it would be easy to
> undo them all if we decided to do so. All in all, I think we have a lot
> to gain, and little to lose.

Just to be clear.  I'm happy with the state the i386-specefic bits are
in, so if Stan's happy with the generic Darwin bits I have no
objections.  Best to have this in the tree such that it is easier for
other people to work on.