Re: [cdt-debug-dev] CDT Debug/GDB API change/churn (post 2.0)

[Johan Walles <walles@xxxxxx>]

Leon Pollak wrote:
> On Thursday 08 July 2004 10:38, Johan Walles wrote:
>
> > Lott, Jeremiah wrote:
> >
> > > > First point:
> > > > Should we drop support for gdb-5.2.x and require the CDT/GDB/MI to be
> > > > at least 6.x ?
> > >
> > > We would be opposed to this.  We already get complaints that 5.2.x is
> > > too stringent a requirement (people want to use even older versions of
> > > gdb).
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, why can't people upgrade their gdbs?
>
> Because there are many specific gdb modifications/patches which were made for 
> the old versions. Their upgrade is sometimes not a trivial task which 
> somebody must do and this "somebody" is still looked for...:-))
> For example, I use gdb with BDM interface to the MPC860 CPU, it exist for 5.3 
> but not higher. And it works fine!

Why haven't these patches made into the official gdb releases?  Are they too 
specific to what you're doing?

  //Johan