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Re: File name convention ARCH-OSABI-tdep.c
- From: John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD dot org>
- To: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: weimin dot pan at oracle dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 08:43:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: File name convention ARCH-OSABI-tdep.c
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On 6/21/17 6:09 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I want to extend the *-tdep.c file name convention. The current
> convention is ARCH-OSABI-tdep.c, and I want to extend it to
> ARCH-OSABI-tdep-FUNC.c, in which FUNC is about a certain functionality
> or feature about this target.
>
> The sparc64 adi patch
> (https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-06/msg00472.html) adds a new
> file sparc64-adi-tdep.c which should be merged to sparc64-tdep.c
> according to the current naming convention. However, I think it is good
> to put different things in different files. So with the new convention
> proposed here, the new file can be sparc64-tdep-adi.c.
>
> Secondly, some *-tdep.c files are already quite large, arm-tdep.c is of
> 399434 bytes, 13318 lines. It is the 5th largest file. arm-tdep.c
> includes many things which are not related to each, like displaced
> stepping and process record. I am thinking that we should allow people
> moving them out of *-tdep.c to *-tdep-displaced.c and *-tdep-precord.c.
I like this idea. In my FreeBSD kgdb patches I have been putting the
kernel-specific bits (custom frame unwinders, etc.) in files named
ARCH-OSABI-kern.c. I would be happy to place those in ARCH-OSABI-tdep-kern.c
instead.
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John Baldwin