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Re: [PATCH] Add ABI variant infrastructure to Alpha target

From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>
Cc: thorpej at wasabisystems dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:59:16 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ABI variant infrastructure to Alpha target
References: <20020421112418.H1627@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <20020421.171029.98615711.davem@redhat.com>

>  From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:24:18 -0700
> 
>    Cloned from arm-tdep.c, committed per the mult-arch rule.
>    
> What is the multi-arch rule?

It is the ``obvious fix rule'' interpreted liberally in the multi-arch 
context.  A multi-arch conversion is largely slog work, consisting of a 
sequence of mechanical (but separate) changes.
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/papers/multi-arch/howto.html

> Do my sparc OS ABI changes fall under
> it?

I'd tend to suspect that the other SPARC developers are going to take 
the oportunity to review that proposal.

Andrew

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