Based on the submission thread on the GDB mailing list
<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00490.html>, it seems
that the patch is unusable in its current state:

 * Hector Oron <zu...@debian.org> (the Debian maintainer for gdb) noted
   that it didn't actually build for him
   <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00491.html>

 * Joel Brobecker <brobec...@adacore.com> noted that tried to include
   target headers from sh-tdep.h, which doesn't work in -tdep.h files:
   these files need to build on *any* host, regardless of CPU
   architecture and operating system.  An example of how this is a
   problem even in Debian: these headers presumably don't even exist on
   kfreebsd.
   <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00501.html>

 * Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> pointed out that any significant
   contributors would need to sign copyright assignment papers, since
   the patch is far from trivial.  Otherwise, GNU won't merge it, and it
   will bitrot constantly.
   <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00499.html>

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