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Re: Linux sigtramp detection code moved to its proper place
On Mar 16, 6:00pm, Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:55:04PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> >On Mar 16, 5:41pm, Jim Blandy wrote:
> >
> >> There's a lot of code in i386-tdep.c devoted to identifying and
> >> unraveling Linux signal trampolines. There's absolutely no reason I
> >> can think of that this should be in i386-tdep.c, intead of
> >> i386-linux-nat.c.
> >
> >I think it should go in i386-linux-tdep.c instead. That way you'd be
> >able to debug a linux/ia32 target from a non-linux/ia32 host.
>
> What about the 14 character limit for filenames?
>
> (Just trying to see if anyone has a deja vu experience)
Didn't we decide that they just had to be 8.3 unique for files which
have to compile on a DOS system?
In any event, the point is that the sigtramp detection code ought to
go into a *-tdep.c file so we can debug linux/ia32 systems from a
different host.
Kevin