run the ARI on gdbserver too?

[Pierre Muller]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : gdb-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] De la part
> de Pedro Alves
> Envoyé : lundi 12 novembre 2012 19:38
> À : Joel Brobecker
> Cc : Pierre Muller; gdb@sourceware.org
> Objet : run the ARI on gdbserver too?
> 
> On 11/12/2012 06:07 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> >> >   Also, I would find as a logical consequence that also
> >> > gdbserver subdirectory should follow the ARI rules.
> >> >   This is done quite easily by removing the
> >> >   -name gdbserver -prune -o
> >> > line from gdb_find.sh script in gdb/contrib./ari
> >> > but is a rather important change that should be discussed fully.
> > Right. I think it would be a helpful, but I'll let Pedro comment
> > on that one.
> 
> I agree that it's a logical step.  I think we'll see a lot of
> hits that don't actually point at issues that are problems in
> practice (due to the fact lots of gdbserver code is host/native
> code that makes assumptions on the environment its being built
> for, like bits of native code in gdb does), but it sounds nevertheless
> a good idea, considering we'll want to share more and more between
> gdb and gdbserver.

  This was one of the reasons 
of my old proposition to distinguish between
native and general files.
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-03/msg01087.html

  Using things like 'long long' type or '%ll' or '%p'
is not really a problem for native files, but
can become one for general files as the size of the
fields might not match was is expected.


Pierre Muller