Re: [RFC] Create src/gdb/common, move signals.c there.

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:52:02PM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> Some code is shared between gdb and gdbserver, and over time more
> code will be shared.  And I think the lack of explicit sharing
> is complicating progress.

I, personally, do not think that sharing code between gdb and
gdbserver is very useful.  There's no defined common API that shared
code could rely on, and the internals are pretty different.

> This patch does these things:
> 
> 1) Create src/gdb/common, and adds -I's to $(src)/common to the Makefiles.
> 2) Pull the duplicate decls of the functions in signals.c out of
>    gdb/target.h and gdbserver/server.h and put them in common/gdb_signals.h.
> 3) Move signals/signals.c to common/signals.c, and cleans up signals.c
>    a bit.

This patch seems fine on its own merits, though.

> - maybe(!) move regformats to common, though it's big enough
>   and standalone enough that I don't have an opinion on it

Not sure what the point of this would be, that code is just for
gdbserver.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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