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Re: Top-level bits/ vs sysdeps/generic/bits/
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 14:24:26 +0000
- Subject: Re: Top-level bits/ vs sysdeps/generic/bits/
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On Tue, 10 May 2016, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> top-level module directories. I'm guessing that the idea was eventually
> to dispose of sysdeps/generic altogether (which I would certainly
> support) and that there isn't supposed to be a sysdeps/generic/bits anymore.
I'm not sure how disposing of sysdeps/generic would work in the case of a
header (non-installed, overridden by some configurations) that's used by
multiple subdirectories. That's most cases of files in sysdeps/generic
(there are also some installed headers there, and some .c files, and
default ABI test baselines), and you'd need to have another place to put
them (like top-level bits/ is for bits/ headers).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com