Porting GDB - Where to start?

[Andrew Cagney]

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:56:22AM +0100, James Sampson wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> In my GDB journey, I have now found out, that I need to port the GDB to C55x 
>> target. A recipe on how to do this, exists only in very light form. The best 
>> thing is to edit another port, and since I don't know which port to choose, I 
>> ask that exact question here.
>> 
>> Which port would be best to start from, when I'm porting to a C55x target 
>> which produces COFF files?.
> 
> 
> It's an ELF port, but xstormy16 is still probably your best bet.

Yes.

(GDB ports are object file netural.  Handling elf, xcoff, coff, ... is a 
bfd problem and as long as BFD can handle it, so can GDB. The only 
potential got-ya is the debug info, use GCC and you should be safe there.)