ARM RDI

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org
Tue Nov 29 12:01:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:15, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> In my quest to make things build on Windows, I see that ARM GDB doesn't
> quite build for Windows do the fact that rdi-share doesn't build without
> angeldll.h.  However, rdi-share does still build on GNU/Linux, where
> rdi-share isn't required.
> 
> Since RDI has been declared obsolete by ARM, and since the version in
> GDB is even more obsolete than that, I'm not sure that there's much
> point in continuing to try to support RDI.
> 
> There seem to be several options, ordered, IMHO, from best to worst.
> 
> 1) Remove rdi-share from GDB entirely.

I think this one is probably best now...  I discussed it with Andrew at
the Summit and we agreed it was the way to go.  But like dejagnu removal
it's taking a long time to finally do it...

R.



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