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Re: ARM RDI
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: GDB <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:13:34 +0000
- Subject: Re: ARM RDI
- References: <438B8FAD.1020804@codesourcery.com>
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:15, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> In my quest to make things build on Windows, I see that ARM GDB doesn't
> quite build for Windows do the fact that rdi-share doesn't build without
> angeldll.h. However, rdi-share does still build on GNU/Linux, where
> rdi-share isn't required.
>
> Since RDI has been declared obsolete by ARM, and since the version in
> GDB is even more obsolete than that, I'm not sure that there's much
> point in continuing to try to support RDI.
>
> There seem to be several options, ordered, IMHO, from best to worst.
>
> 1) Remove rdi-share from GDB entirely.
I think this one is probably best now... I discussed it with Andrew at
the Summit and we agreed it was the way to go. But like dejagnu removal
it's taking a long time to finally do it...
R.