[PATCH v5 1/4] arc: Add ARCv2 XML target along with refactoring

Simon Marchi simark@simark.ca
Tue Aug 4 13:20:57 GMT 2020


On 2020-08-04 9:18 a.m., Shahab Vahedi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:08:39AM -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
>> Does that cause backwards compatibility issues?  Could someone have written a gdb stub
>> returning an XML target description containing the old feature names, which will now not
>> work due to these name changes?
> 
> Yes!
> 

Do you see a way we could keep backwards compatibility?  Like a way to introduce the new
names, but still make the old names work?

Simon


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