From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12032 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2011 14:08:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 12009 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Sep 2011 14:08:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:08:08 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8TE7OTq011331 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:07:24 -0400 Received: from [10.36.7.175] (vpn1-7-175.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.7.175]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8TE7Ls6019734; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:07:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4E847BFD.1000807@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:14:00 -0000 From: Nick Clifton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.22) Gecko/20110906 Fedora/3.1.14-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Richard Earnshaw (home)" CC: "binutils@sourceware.org" , "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" , "aph@redhat.com" Subject: Re: RFC: Collecting together binary file attributes into a single file. References: <7466E409-8C17-408C-82C6-E0A1C6AD3D20@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7466E409-8C17-408C-82C6-E0A1C6AD3D20@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-09/txt/msg00540.txt.bz2 Hi Richard, > I don't think it's a good idea to have the attributes of > every CPU we support in a single file. That's going to > get unmaintainable very quickly. Really - why ? These attributes are mostly static. Some new ones might be added from time to time, but baring the introduction of new ports I do not see any other changes that re likely to happen. Cheers Nick