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Re: HPPA files naming convention...
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:59:59 -0500
- Subject: Re: HPPA files naming convention...
- References: <20021126005631.GC23000@gnat.com>
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:56:31PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I find the naming convention for the hppa targets too short for my
> liking: - hppah -> hppa on hpux
> - hppao -> hppa on osf
> - hppab -> hppa on bsd
>
> I suggest we transition to a more verbose naming, which should be more
> consistent with the other ports I know. For instance, how about
> hppa-hpux instead of hppah. I hear a netbsd port will probably be done
> in the future, we can then use hppa-netbsd.
>
> We would use this convention for the files in the config/pa directory
> (tm-hppa-hpux.h, hppa-hpux.mt, etc), and also for for the files in gdb
> (hppa-hpux-tdep.c).
>
> The part that is indenpedent of the OS would still stay in hppa (eg
> tm-hppa, hppa-tdep.c, etc).
>
> Does this seam like a good idea?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer