[PATCH] Refactor common/target-common into meaningful bits
Mark Kettenis
mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl
Mon Aug 5 19:21:00 GMT 2013
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:11:58 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Pedro> I've read your email several times over, and I sense that we're
> Pedro> talking past each other.
>
> Yeah. And thanks for your follow-up, I think it is clarifying.
>
> Pedro> Yep. So, if we move the classic "target" bits to a "target/"
> Pedro> module directory, and put the native bits in their own dir, we
> Pedro> have:
>
> Pedro> target/resume.h
> Pedro> target/waitstatus.[c|h]
> Pedro> target/wait.h
> Pedro> nat/i386-nat.c
> Pedro> nat/linux-nat.c
> Pedro> nat/linux-ptrace.c
> Pedro> nat/linux-waitpid.c
> Pedro> etc.
>
> Pedro> Is this what you're thinking of? _This_, I'm fine with.
>
> Yeah, this is what I think we ought to do.
>
> Pedro> It's actually very similar to something else I suggested on IRC,
> Pedro> but forgot to put in email form: "IMO, the interfaces themselves
> Pedro> would be in an include dir. e.g.,
> Pedro> gdb/include/target-waitstatus.h or some such, and then we'd have
> Pedro> gdb/nat/linux-nat.c, etc."
>
> I'm usually against include dirs, but if they are near enough to the
> implementation it is ok by me. My issue with them is mainly
> forgettability -- like, I never, ever remember to look for things in
> src/include/gdb; and then directories like this tend to become forgotten
> graveyards.
Yea, we shouldn't put anything in src/include/gdb unless it is
absolutely necessary. That pretty much translates into "unless sim
needs it".
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