Moving Linux-specific stuff out of i386-tdep.c
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Thu Mar 9 06:07:00 GMT 2000
Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 1. Do we still care about the filename limits of older System V
> systems? i386-linux-nat.c is longer than 14 characters which is a
> no-no according to the GNU conding standards.
Per other e-mail: no but (8.3 :-)
> 2. Should I postpone creating the new -tdep.c file until after the
> release or not. Andrew has been telling us to avoid gratuitous
> changes to make it easier to apply outstanding patches. But on the
> other hand, after 5.0 is released, I hope to see a lot new patches
> generated against 5.0. So creating the new file before 5.0 would
> make applying those new patches a lot easier.
I guess its the sigtramp stuff.
If the checkin was a straight cut/paste (without edits) I won't notice
:-)
Down the track, there will need to be ``i386-linux-tdep.h'' so that
i386-linux-nat.c can include it. (Hmm, with i386-linux-tdep.c, no
wonder Eli raised a concern).
Andrew
More information about the Gdb
mailing list