[RFC] target defined OSABI sniffer

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Thu Jun 26 15:50:00 GMT 2003


> It seems that a lot of effort has been put into the multi-arch stuff but
> most of it centers around recognizing a binary and setting things up based
> on that.  I'm pondering whether that is the right approach in all cases.
> Shouldn't the target be telling gdb what it should be doing rather than the
> other way around?

Yes.

Will need to read the rest of your e-mail later :-(  BTW, there's also:
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/papers/multi-arch/real-multi-arch/index.html#SEC40
as a second discussion point.

Andrew




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