Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Mon Jun 3 11:43:00 GMT 2002

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> Hi all,
> 
> I bump with same problem on h8300 arches, and for solving this problem 
> one and for all, I see next 2 ways:

Hmm, yes, two occurances of the same problem definitly suggests the 
current technique isn't maintainable.

> 1) export from archures.c something like 
> 
> 	const bfd_arch_info_type *bfd_get_lookup_arch_head
> 		(enum bfd_architecture arch);
> 
>    This is not so good, because it assume hacking bfd internals.
> 
> 2) Or, put gdbarch_printables_names to bfd like:
> 
>    const char **bfd_machine_printables_names (enum bfd_architecture arch);

There is bfd_arch_list().  A per-architecture one would do what GDB 
needs.  See gdbarch.c:gdbarch_printable_names().

> which return all machine names for given architecture.
> 
> What do you think?


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I should note that GDB pulls another swifty.

It runs config.bfd so that it can identify the default bfd vector 
(${targ_defvec}) (for the byte-order) and default bfd architecture 
(${targ_archs}) (for the default architecture).  Perhaps there should be 
interfaces for these as well.

Andrew

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