From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] solib-svr4.c: Fix set_solib_svr4_fetch_link_map_offsets
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:56:00 -0000
Message-id: <3BABEFC7.9020100@cygnus.com>
References: <1010920205607.ZM17368@ocotillo.lan>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00295.html

> As a heads up though, one of the problems is that solib-svr4.c
> actually contains (ifdef'd) shared library support for both SVR4 and
> SunOS.  I will be disentangling these mechanisms and will place SunOS
> shared library support in its own file.  That way we'll be able to do
> away with the SVR4_SHARED_LIBS macro and we won't accidentally attempt
> to ever include <link.h> from solib-svr4.c any longer.

To be honest, I've been very tempted to solve this problem using a very 
brutal approach: take solib-svr4.c, copy it to solib-aout.c, strip 
out/in SVR4-SHARED_LIBS code, and then tweek the config files to use either.

I think this is one of those cases where the desire to re-use the code 
was taken a little to far - better to get the interfaces right and have 
a clear separation.  Who cares about a little duplication :-)

enjoy,
Andrew