Re: HPPA files naming convention...

Andrew Cagney
2002-11-26T15:30:27Z

What about the other way.

panbsd-tdep.c
pa-linux-tdep.c
pa-hpux-nat.c

for reasons unknown gdb ended up with config/pa instead of config/hppa.

> I suggest we transition to a more verbose naming, which should be more
> consistent with the other ports I know. For instance, how about
> hppa-hpux instead of hppah. I hear a netbsd port will probably be done
> in the future, we can then use hppa-netbsd.
>
> We would use this convention for the files in the config/pa directory
> (tm-hppa-hpux.h, hppa-hpux.mt, etc), and also for for the files in gdb
> (hppa-hpux-tdep.c).
>
> The part that is indenpedent of the OS would still stay in hppa (eg
> tm-hppa, hppa-tdep.c, etc).
>
> Does this seam like a good idea?

but which ever. (To follow up eli's comment, watch the ari for name
space problems).

Andrew