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Re: Moving Linux-specific stuff out of i386-tdep.c
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>
- Subject: Re: Moving Linux-specific stuff out of i386-tdep.c
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:05:59 +1100
- CC: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <200003082121.e28LLRu05681@delius.kettenis.local>
Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 1. Do we still care about the filename limits of older System V
> systems? i386-linux-nat.c is longer than 14 characters which is a
> no-no according to the GNU conding standards.
Per other e-mail: no but (8.3 :-)
> 2. Should I postpone creating the new -tdep.c file until after the
> release or not. Andrew has been telling us to avoid gratuitous
> changes to make it easier to apply outstanding patches. But on the
> other hand, after 5.0 is released, I hope to see a lot new patches
> generated against 5.0. So creating the new file before 5.0 would
> make applying those new patches a lot easier.
I guess its the sigtramp stuff.
If the checkin was a straight cut/paste (without edits) I won't notice
:-)
Down the track, there will need to be ``i386-linux-tdep.h'' so that
i386-linux-nat.c can include it. (Hmm, with i386-linux-tdep.c, no
wonder Eli raised a concern).
Andrew