Re: File name convention ARCH-OSABI-tdep.c

[jose.marchesi@oracle.com (Jose E. Marchesi)]

    > I want to extend the *-tdep.c file name convention.  The current
    > convention is ARCH-OSABI-tdep.c, and I want to extend it to
    > ARCH-OSABI-tdep-FUNC.c, in which FUNC is about a certain functionality
    > or feature about this target.
    > 
    > The sparc64 adi patch
    > (https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-06/msg00472.html) adds a new
    > file sparc64-adi-tdep.c which should be merged to sparc64-tdep.c
    > according to the current naming convention.  However, I think it is good
    > to put different things in different files.  So with the new convention
    > proposed here, the new file can be sparc64-tdep-adi.c.
    > 
    > Secondly, some *-tdep.c files are already quite large, arm-tdep.c is of
    > 399434 bytes, 13318 lines.  It is the 5th largest file.  arm-tdep.c
    > includes many things which are not related to each, like displaced
    > stepping and process record.  I am thinking that we should allow people
    > moving them out of *-tdep.c to *-tdep-displaced.c and *-tdep-precord.c.
    > 
    
    This is fine with me.  I definitely agree with splitting big files in
    smaller pieces.

Since no one objected... do we have consensus on this one? :)