From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25233 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2004 07:44:49 -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 25226 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2004 07:44:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aragorn.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.23) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2004 07:44:48 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.152.225]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.5-GR) with ESMTP id CRZ26257; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:44:36 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 07:44:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Andrew Cagney Message-Id: <2719-Sat17Apr2004104035+0300-eliz@gnu.org> CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <40802C3D.9040906@gnu.org> (message from Andrew Cagney on Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:55:57 -0400) Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Generate observer.[hc] Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <4075BF8E.9080706@gnu.org> <1659-Thu15Apr2004142420+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <407E9FEE.1040906@gnu.org> <6654-Fri16Apr2004095441+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <40802C3D.9040906@gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00386.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:55:57 -0400 > From: Andrew Cagney > > > > 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.