Upgrading from old gdb version

Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com
Mon Mar 5 19:26:00 GMT 2007


Jim Blandy wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:34:34PM -0800, Michael Eager wrote:
>>> Can someone suggest a starting point?
>> Not really - last time I had to do this, I found it easiest to take a
>> working target from the current GDB and redo my older port based on
>> that model.
> 
> I concur with that.  The New Way to do ports is much simpler and
> cleaner; if you're coming from the 5.3 era, it's better to just start
> from scratch.

Thanks Daniel & Jim.  I'm going to look at the Sparc port
as a base for re-implementing the target.

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