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

[Leon Pollak <leonp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:49, Johan Walles wrote:
> 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?
Well, I suppose that official GDB releases accommodate those changes that they 
can maintain - check and test. I don't think that they are able to maintain 
all peripheral interfaces to all CPU models the gdb works with. And there are 
plenty of these, I think.

But this is only my own opinion...:-))
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Leon M.Pollak
leonp at plris dot com