[RFC] bfd/vms

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Tue Apr 21 11:51:00 GMT 2009


On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Nick Clifton wrote:

> Hi Tristan,
>
>> currently the alpha/vax vms backend in split in 4 files:
>> vms-gsd.c
>> vms-hdr.c
>> vms-misc.c
>> vms-tir.c
>> I think it doesn't really make sense to have 4 files for such a  
>> minor backend.  The total size
>> is about 150KB, which isn't very large (250KB for elf32-ppc.c,  
>> 350KB for elf64-ppc.c for examples).
>> I plan to put all these bits into vms-eobj.c (obj/eobj is the name  
>> of the vms vax/alpha object file format,
>> but because this name is too common I prefer to keep the vms-  
>> prefix).
>> Any objections/comments ?
>
> If the current set of four files is not broken, why change them ?
>
> I don't object to the change if it is going to serve a useful  
> purpose - for example making maintainence easier - but I do object  
> if theer is no real benefit.

Ok.  There are currently no real benefits, so I won't do the change.

Tristan.



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