set architecture for MPC8xx

[Andrew Cagney]

Steven Johnson wrote:
> Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to tell the stub the architecture gdb was set to? (Other
>> than with the monitor command.)
>>  
>>
> That would be nice, but unfortunaltey not to my knowledge.  The stub I 
> wrote for MPC860, only worked with that architecture, and didnt work 
> with the generic powerpc architecture.  It saved me switching, when I 
> never used anything but the MPC8XX Architecture with the stub.
> 
> The counter would be nice, for the stub to tell GDB what architecture/s 
> it actually supports, so GDB takes on the appropriate view.

Yes.

Perhaphs a T packet extension?
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/papers/multi-arch/real-multi-arch/index.html#SEC43

Andrew


> But also, 
> stubs cant do this either.
> 
> Hope this answers the question.
> 
> Steven
>