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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Remove unecessary checks for macros in target.h
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A046173.8030704@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003301c9cfe3$e7547ed0$b5fd7c70$@u-strasbg.fr>

Pierre Muller wrote:
>   target.h header has lots of
> 
> #ifndef A_MACRO
> #define A_MACRO default_implementation
> #endif 
> constructs.
>   
>   This patch simply removes all these 
> unnecessary checks for macros that are not defined anymore in any
> config file, nor by configure script.
> (Unless the configure scripts might set macros 
> without having them inside their sources,
> I checked all those macros by grep). 
> 
>   Is this OK?
> 

I don't know if it is OK.

However, I do wonder if it would make sense to remove the macros 
altogether, and just push the expansions down into the  code.  If we 
really don't want to be able to switch in different implementations of 
these things, what is the point of an added layer of abstraction?

David Daney


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-08 13:50 Pierre Muller
2009-05-08 15:30 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-05-08 16:45 ` David Daney [this message]
2009-05-08 20:32   ` Joel Brobecker

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