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On Saturday 21 April 2012 05:07:36 Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > although, for some of these (like libc.abilist), it's hard to say that > > forcing an arch to copy the entire file is a good thing considering 99% > > of the over 2000 lines in there are going to be duplicate. maybe it'd > > be better to let these particular files hold all target tuples whether > > they be in ports/ or the main tree ? > > I think the right thing is to put files (which would no longer contain > regular expressions for architecture triplets at all) in sysdeps > directories (e.g. sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/abilist) and just take the > files from the first such sysdeps directory found. There would be > duplication, as there is with libm-test-ulps, although in most cases it > would be possible for the person adding a new API to do the mechanical > updates for all targets; I don't think that duplication is a major > problem. i can't see how duplicating ~80K of data 10 times is an improvement. if we really want to insist on splitting the files, i think we should rework the scripts/data formats so arches can override only the pieces they need. -mike
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