Re: [patch/rfc] Generate observer.[hc]

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:55:57 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> > 
> > That much is understood, but I still have a difficulty to see how
> > inventing an elaborate machinery for churning C code out of Texinfo
> > (which is hardly a trivial Sed'ery) is justified by the benefits you
> > mentioned.  I thought perhaps there were other, subtler, benefits
> > which I didn't see.  Are there?
> 
> This machinery isn't that elaborate.

As the build failure just reported by Joel demonstrates, it is going
to be... ;-)

> Here's the original proposal as it relates to gdbarch.sh:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-02/msg00384.html

The target architecture vector is a much mode complex creature than
observers.  So, while the logic is similar, the conclusions might
well be different.

Anyway, if I'm the only one who thinks producing observer.* from the
docs might be an overkill, I don't want to go on arguing.  I just
thought I should bring this to people's attention.