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This commit is part of a series that aims to share more of the x86 target description reading/generation code between GDB and gdbserver. There are a huge number of similarities between the code in gdbserver's x86_linux_read_description function and GDB's x86_linux_nat_target::read_description function, and it is this similarity that I plan, in a later commit, to share between GDB and gdbserver. However, one thing that is different in x86_linux_read_description is the code inside the '!use_xml' block. This is the code that handles the case where gdbserver is not allowed to send an XML target description back to GDB. In this case gdbserver uses some predefined, fixed, target descriptions. First, it's worth noting that I suspect this code is not tested any more. I couldn't find anything in the testsuite that tries to disable XML target description support. And the idea of having a single "fixed" target description really doesn't work well when we think about all the various x86 extensions that exist. Part of me would like to rip out the no-xml support in gdbserver (at least for x86), and if a GDB connects that doesn't support XML target descriptions, gdbserver can just give an error and drop the connection. GDB has supported XML target descriptions for 16 years now, I think it would be reasonable for our shipped gdbserver to drop support for the old way of doing things. Anyway.... this commit doesn't do that. What I did notice was that, over time, the '!use_xml' block appears to have "drifted" within the x86_linux_read_description function; it's now not the first check we do. Instead we make some ptrace calls and return a target description generated based on the result of these ptrace calls. Surely it only makes sense to generate variable target descriptions if we can send these back to GDB? So in this commit I propose to move the '!use_xml' block earlier in the x86_linux_read_description function. The benefit of this is that this leaves the later half of x86_linux_read_description much more similar to the GDB function x86_linux_nat_target::read_description and sets us up for potentially sharing code between GDB and gdbserver in a later commit. Approved-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> |
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ld | ||
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setup.com | ||
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README for GNU development tools This directory contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers, debuggers, etc., plus their support routines, definitions, and documentation. If you are receiving this as part of a GDB release, see the file gdb/README. If with a binutils release, see binutils/README; if with a libg++ release, see libg++/README, etc. That'll give you info about this package -- supported targets, how to use it, how to report bugs, etc. It is now possible to automatically configure and build a variety of tools with one command. To build all of the tools contained herein, run the ``configure'' script here, e.g.: ./configure make To install them (by default in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc), then do: make install (If the configure script can't determine your type of computer, give it the name as an argument, for instance ``./configure sun4''. You can use the script ``config.sub'' to test whether a name is recognized; if it is, config.sub translates it to a triplet specifying CPU, vendor, and OS.) If you have more than one compiler on your system, it is often best to explicitly set CC in the environment before running configure, and to also set CC when running make. For example (assuming sh/bash/ksh): CC=gcc ./configure make A similar example using csh: setenv CC gcc ./configure make Much of the code and documentation enclosed is copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the file COPYING or COPYING.LIB in the various directories, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files. REPORTING BUGS: Again, see gdb/README, binutils/README, etc., for info on where and how to report problems.