target_op(..) -> target_op(target, ...) obvious
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 13:55:00 GMT 2003
> As part of the on-going OO of GDB, the "target vector" is one of the next things up for treatment. I'd like to be sure that everyones ok with the mechanical transformatioin:
>
> target_OP (...) -> taget_OP (target, ...)
>
> being considered "fairly obvious" (post patch, give it a few days, commit patch). Pushing the target around is going to involve touching files across maintenance boundraries.
[Not my day.]
The rationale is the same as for the architecture vector along with the
push to eliminate global thread/frame state. It is to make it possible
to have multiple instances of a specific target. For instance,two
ptrace inferior's, or two active remotes.
Andrew
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