From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
Cc: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com>, Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New C++ abstraction patch
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:14:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00442.html

Michael Snyder wrote:

> Actually, I thought that the practice was only done selectively.
> I don't see its usefulness, except for headers that might have
> different names for different configurations.

It does two things - handles include files with possibly different paths
(the SRCDIR that dan noticed); makes the include spaghetti mess easier
to manage (defs_h expands to all the files it includes, similarly for
others).

Given automake makes it all go a way it isn't really an issue.

	Andrew