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Re: dbxout.c (gstab.h): Use if CROSS_COMPILE.
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Subject: Re: dbxout.c (gstab.h): Use if CROSS_COMPILE.
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:42:47 -0700
- cc: egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com, wilson at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199902261454.JAA28659@caip.rutgers.edu>you write:
> While the change may be safe, relying on a lack of bug reports
> might not be a clear indication it is actually safe in this situation.
I strongly feel it is safe. Really.
> I.e. I don't think the egcs testsuite would show any problems
> if one of the definitions in gstab.h didn't match the host's. IMHO
> you'd need to run the *gdb* testsuite using the right snapshot of egcs
> (the snapshot which mistakenly used gstab.h for natives) as your
> compiler for the test.
True, but the gdb testsuite will, and we had that broken code inside Cygnus
for a while, and we do run the gdb testsuite regularly.
jeff