Re: small change, groundwork for larger one

[Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>]

On Sun, 3 May 1998 16:32:20 -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
>gnulib is a bad place to put them.  That directory was originally for 
>native asm implementations of the functions gcc generates calls to, which
>were put in a library called `gnulib' in gcc v1, now known as libgcc1 and
>built as part of -lgcc by gcc's build.  I think in the current state of
>affairs there may be no need for such a section in libc at all; in that
>case, gnulib should be removed.

It's used by alpha, sparc and mips for routines like what you describe. 
Maybe that code is stale now, but it does look pretty recent.

I put them there because I was thinking of gnulib as a directory for
miscellaneous internal code.  They can certainly be moved.

>The reason the init stuff is at top-level is because it needs the list of
>subdirectories for the munch-init version (for non-gnu lds, obviously not a
>big priority).  I suppose you could move all the subdirs setting stuff from
>Makefile to Makeconfig.

Daah, I missed that.  Moving the subdirs setting might make sense; you could
postulate other code that needs that too (except maybe it should be
discouraged?)

zw