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Re: bfd patch for gdb cross-debugging support


On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 00:56 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Danny Backx wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:39 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Danny Backx wrote:
> > > > Oops, I didn't include the new file (bfd/filesystem.c). Attached now.
> > > 
> > > Why are you putting this in BFD?  The relevant libiberty interfaces from 
> > > filenames.h are used in GCC which doesn't use BFD, you need to put the 
> > > functions they now use in libiberty where all libiberty users can see 
> > > them.
> > 
> > I did that because filenames.h says it's part of BFD.
> > 
> > Is that statement wrong ?
> 
> As part of the subset of files in include/ that are shared between the GCC 
> and src repositories, it is part of libiberty and any associated library 
> facilities belong in libiberty.  For what files in libiberty claim to be 
> parts of, see <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-06/msg01286.html> (which 
> however may only have addressed libiberty/ and not include/).

Thanks. I was directed to the libiberty maintainers but instead let the
comment in filenames.h distract me. I will talk to them instead.

	Danny
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Danny Backx ; danny.backx - at - scarlet.be ; http://danny.backx.info


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