From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2521 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2002 18:42:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2420 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2002 18:42:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 2002 18:42:15 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16j2qF-0003cs-00; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:42:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:42:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: New directory src/gdb/misc? Message-ID: <20020307134215.A13922@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <3C86D0FA.6010801@cygnus.com> <20020307003134.B20240@nevyn.them.org> <3C87071E.7040100@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C87071E.7040100@cygnus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:22:22AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > >'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. > > No information was the idea :-) Common with what? Another name is > ``host'' this stuff is all host specific. > > >Ideally, there would be other files as GDB became gradually more > >modular. THat's something to talk about later though. > > The one that comes to mind, is the code for mapping between an internal > buffer and the host's ptrace(). I don't think that would live in common. Perhaps someday we'll be able to share that. It's a bit of a pipe dream ATM, of course. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer