From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21224 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2002 18:55:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21117 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 18:55:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO thor.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.11) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 18:55:37 -0000 Received: from zaretsky (diup-219-15.inter.net.il [213.8.219.15]) by thor.inter.net.il (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AFE67585; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:55:27 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:55:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: ac131313@cygnus.com Message-Id: <2561-Sun20Jan2002205223+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, mrg@redhat.com In-reply-to: <3C4B0EA1.90403@cygnus.com> (message from Andrew Cagney on Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:38:25 -0500) Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Don't assume the host Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <3C4AFA9D.6050603@cygnus.com> <2950-Sun20Jan2002202236+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3C4B0EA1.90403@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00579.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:38:25 -0500 > From: Andrew Cagney > > > > The way I see it, "Porting GDB" is a cookbook: it should list the > > necessary steps without explaining their rationale too much. It > > should refer to "Host Definition" for more info, wherever appropriate. > > "Host Definition", by contrast, should explain as much as possible > > each of the components of the host definition machinery. > > Ah, ok. Yes, that makes sense. Should ``Porting GDB'' be moved to > before the host, architecture and target sections (and add a native > section?). That way the user is lead into the other chapters. Porting > GDB being a brief overview. Yes, if we say in ``Porting GDB'' that it's an overview, and the other chapters describe the stuff in more details, it would make a lot of sense to move ``Porting GDB''.