Re: New directory src/gdb/misc?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:31:22PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some may have noticed DanielJ's and my discussion about better sharing 
> of the signals.c code between GDB and GDBSERVER.
> 
> I'd previously posted a suggestion that gdb/utils.c be broken down into 
> smaller parts and moved to a new directory gdb/utils/.  utils.c is 
> running into system include header problems, that should be easier to 
> handle if there are a number of smaller more independant files.
> 
> In addition to this GDBSERVER and GDB contain a number of common chunks 
> of code related to signal handling and conversion.  The proposal is to 
> break signals.c down into smaller files in the directory gdb/common/.
> 
> Having had a bit of time to think this over, I suspect a gdb/utils/ 
> directory is wrongly named - utils makes me think of utility programs.
> 
> This leaves ``gdb/common'' and, (new suggestion) gdb/misc/ as possible 
> directory names.

'misc' doesn't convey any information.  It's like calling something
'new' in its documentation - not useful for very long.  I'd vote for
common.

Ideally, there would be other files as GDB became gradually more
modular.  THat's something to talk about later though.

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