From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Blandy To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Revised C++ ABI abstraction patches Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:38:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <200103170728.CAA00303@indy.delorie.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00349.html Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: Jim Blandy > > Date: 15 Mar 2001 13:41:20 -0500 > > > > The names `gnu-v[23]-abi' just indicate that they're implementations > > of some ABI, but the files are actually specifically dealing with C++ > > ABI's. It's not meaningful to talk about an ABI without knowing the > > source language, since an ABI is a binding between a particular source > > language and a particular machine language. > > The reason I wanted the previous names was that, unlike with many > other files whose names clash after truncation to 8+3, these files > will be used in building the DJGPP port. While renaming files via > fnchange.lst might be okay for files that don't go into the build, it > is a PITA for files which do get compiled and linked, because the > Makefile's need to be edited as well. I knuckled under, and used gnu-v[23]-abi'. While I still don't like the names, I didn't mean to dig up decisions people had hashed out already.