Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add fbsd_nat_add_target.

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 04/27/2015 09:50 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
>> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:17:52 -0400

>> FWIW, obsd-nat.c (which I have looked at a bit), also uses a wrapper
>> around add_target rather than creating a generic OpenBSD native target.
>> To change the FreeBSD native targets I think would be an invasive change
>> since they use platform-specific native targets that are pan-BSD as their
>> initial target (e.g. amd64bsd_target) and customize from there.  To make
>> fbsd_nat_target work I would need to rework things like amd64bsd_target
>> to modify an existing target instead of returning a new one I think (which
>> would also mean changing all the other BSD native targets).
> 
> Which is why I'm perfectly happy with your current 1/3 diff ;).

I'm happy with it too.  I was just curious.

Sounds like we'll need to revisit this if/when we make target_ops a
proper class hierarchy, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

> As far as I'm concerned you're the expert here and to me the series
> looks reasonable as posted.

Agreed.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves