Top-level bits/ vs sysdeps/generic/bits/

[Zack Weinberg]

On 05/10/2016 10:24 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2016, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
>> top-level module directories.  I'm guessing that the idea was eventually
>> to dispose of sysdeps/generic altogether (which I would certainly
>> support) and that there isn't supposed to be a sysdeps/generic/bits anymore.
> 
> I'm not sure how disposing of sysdeps/generic would work in the case of a 
> header (non-installed, overridden by some configurations) that's used by 
> multiple subdirectories.  That's most cases of files in sysdeps/generic 
> (there are also some installed headers there, and some .c files, and 
> default ABI test baselines), and you'd need to have another place to put 
> them (like top-level bits/ is for bits/ headers).

Without having looked into it at all, couldn't they go in include/?
(in principle - I'm aware that there are any number of reasons why this
won't work right now)

zw