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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.
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