From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9369 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2002 00:59:23 -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 9361 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2002 00:59:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2002 00:59:23 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E173D1A; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:59:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CC36064.4010201@cygnus.com> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:59:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020328 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: thorpej@wasabisystems.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ABI variant infrastructure to Alpha target References: <20020421112418.H1627@dr-evil.shagadelic.org> <20020421.171029.98615711.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00756.txt.bz2 > From: Jason R Thorpe > Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:24:18 -0700 > > Cloned from arm-tdep.c, committed per the mult-arch rule. > > What is the multi-arch rule? It is the ``obvious fix rule'' interpreted liberally in the multi-arch context. A multi-arch conversion is largely slog work, consisting of a sequence of mechanical (but separate) changes. http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/papers/multi-arch/howto.html > Do my sparc OS ABI changes fall under > it? I'd tend to suspect that the other SPARC developers are going to take the oportunity to review that proposal. Andrew