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Re: [patch] Move common macros to i386-common.h


On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:36:41 +0100, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Thinking beyond that, I think that GDB should conceptualy contain
> a internal GDBserver. That way, when we port GDB to an architecture,
> we're pretty much porting GDBserver as well, for free. And when
> someone only ported GDBserver at one point, we don't need to redo
> that work when porting GDB itself.

It was discussed before, an external gdbserver is IMO fine, the problem is
some important features are now present only in linux-nat (such as
`set follow-fork-mode') (and other features are only in gdbserver now).
After the features are on-par in gdbserver the switch will happen ASAP.


Thanks,
Jan


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