Re: delete target dbug/picobug/dink32/m32r/mon2000 ?

Stan Shebs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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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
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