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Re: Atlas eCos support and GDB change


Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com> writes:

> Nick Garnett wrote:
> > 2. The register handling in the GDB stub code for the MIPS32 variant
> >    has been changed to supply 32 bit registers rather than 64
> >    bit. This is a departure from the original code, which supported a
> >    target-specific version of GDB. This change allows us to use the
> >    public gcc 3.2.x compiler.
> 
> I would still be interested to know if this will cause problems with
> the "official" mipsisa32-elf tools from ftp.mips.com,
> i.e. ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/redhat/linux/

It will certainly cause a problem, the original configuration was
specifically for those tools. The public GDB behaves differently. This
is why I brought the issue up elsewhere.

> 
> If it does, we may want to consider at the very least adding a release
> note, but probably adding some sort of configuration option.
>

We will probably need to mention it somewhere in the documentation. 

-- 
Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com/     The eCos and RedBoot experts


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