Re: [RFC/commit] Getting rid of tm-rs6000.h (PROCESS_LINENUMBER_HOOK)

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

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> Hello,
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> There is only one macro left in tm-rs6000.h, which is:
> 
>     /* In xcoff, we cannot process line numbers when we see them. This is
>        mainly because we don't know the boundaries of the include files. So,
>        we postpone that, and then enter and sort(?) the whole line table at
>        once, when we are closing the current symbol table in end_symtab(). */
>     
>     #define PROCESS_LINENUMBER_HOOK()       aix_process_linenos ()
>     extern void aix_process_linenos (void);
> 
> The AIX port is the only port that defines this macro, and it's only
> used in one place: buildsym.c:end_symtab(). I think the most appropriate
> way to define this notion is as a gdbarch method, set only in the case
> of AIX. This is what this patch does.

Hmm, if this is something that is purely for a specific object/debug format,
I think the gdbarch vector is the wrong place to put it.

Mark