This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [commit] Replace "Hitachi" and "Mitsubishi" with "Renesas"
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- To: Kei Sakamoto <sakamoto dot kei at renesas dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:33:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: [commit] Replace "Hitachi" and "Mitsubishi" with "Renesas"
- References: <01e401c38eff$57aa9e70$5169910a@KEI>
> Hello,
>
> While I was writing a documentation for m32r new remote target,
> I found that there were a lot of "Hitachi" and "Mitsubishi" in
> source files and documentations.
>
> Since they are now Renesas Technology, I replaced them with
> "Renesas."
>
> I've committed this as obvious.
Unfortunatly, this one isn't so obvious, sigh! Should "Hitachi" or
"Mitsubishi" appears in an historic context then that name should be
retained - we need to avoid rewriting history. For instance:
-Hitachi America, Ltd. sponsored the support for H8/300, H8/500, and
+Renesas America, Ltd. sponsored the support for H8/300, H8/500, and
Super-H processors.
"Hitachi" (a specific legal entity), and not "Renesas" sponsored the H8
development. At that time Renesas did not exist.
Similarly, for specific products that didn't survive the merger, I think
it's again better to let the comments reflect history (Is the E7000
still live? For the d10v, I've never had success finding anything
public on it and I've tried a number of sources, would you have a pointer?)
I see that you've carefully avoided touching the SH-5. My hunch that
having the sh4/sh5 split would, in the long run, make lives easier was
correct :-)
enjoy,
Andrew