From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2967 invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2003 17:03:00 -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 2876 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2003 17:02:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (65.49.0.121) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Sep 2003 17:02:59 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0372B89; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:02:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F634DBE.30001@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:03:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Buettner Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: ppc-po-tdep.c? References: <3F622409.5060104@redhat.com> <1030912204301.ZM717@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00292.txt.bz2 > On Sep 12, 3:52pm, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> What do you think of a second ABI file (ppc-po-tdep.c?) along the lines >> of ppc-sysv-tdep.c that would contain the "AIX" / "Apple" / "PowerOpen" >> / "SYSVr4 PPC64" ABIs (they are all a close fit). > > > I think this is a good idea. The name you've suggested is okay with > me also. > > As I suggested to Jimi a few days ago, I'd like to eventually see the > generic PPC code moved to its own file. The remainder of > rs6000-tdep.c would then be AIX specific and this file could be > renamed to ppc-aix-tdep.c. BTW, I'm really tempted by the names: ppc-aix-abi.[ch] ppc-svr4-abi.[ch] as that really reflect what's going on. (ppc-sysv, isn't right - it is only for release 4 of system 5. Andrew