[patch/rfc] Generate observer.[hc]
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Sat Apr 17 07:44:00 GMT 2004
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:55:57 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> >
> > That much is understood, but I still have a difficulty to see how
> > inventing an elaborate machinery for churning C code out of Texinfo
> > (which is hardly a trivial Sed'ery) is justified by the benefits you
> > mentioned. I thought perhaps there were other, subtler, benefits
> > which I didn't see. Are there?
>
> This machinery isn't that elaborate.
As the build failure just reported by Joel demonstrates, it is going
to be... ;-)
> Here's the original proposal as it relates to gdbarch.sh:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-02/msg00384.html
The target architecture vector is a much mode complex creature than
observers. So, while the logic is similar, the conclusions might
well be different.
Anyway, if I'm the only one who thinks producing observer.* from the
docs might be an overkill, I don't want to go on arguing. I just
thought I should bring this to people's attention.
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