Re: delete target dbug/picobug/dink32/m32r/mon2000 ?
Stan Shebs <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Pedro Alves <[email protected]> wrote: > All of these targets use gdb/monitor.c, which has bit rotted > years ago (I'd guess around ~6), and nobody seems to > have noticed. > > I propose deleting them (along with monitor.c): > > | target | source | > |----------------+----------------------| > | target dbug | gdb/dbug-rom.c | > | target picobug | gdb/microblaze-rom.c | > | target dink32 | gdb/dink32-rom.c | > | target m32r | gdb/m32r-rom.c | > | target mon2000 | gdb/m32r-rom.c | I agree, that's an infrastructure whose time has come and gone. (Not much call for traditional ROM monitors when one can just as easily boot to a real OS instead!) We would see references to people using monitor backends from time to time, but I haven't seen any mentions (with either new or old GDBs) in several years. Stan