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Subject: Re: Branching
From: Paul Schlie <schlie@comcast.net>
To: Russell Shaw <rjshaw@netspace.net.au>
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> Russell Shaw wrote:
> I made a new remote target for gdb that runs a hardware in-circuit
> emulator. I might add a software simulator target too.
>
> Is it usual to create a 'branch' of gdb for this? The files i
> work on are new ones that aren't a normal part of gdb.

Sounds interesting, but out of curiosity, why need a branch, as opposed
to aggregating target specific files into a configuration/ target-specific
directory, (just as arguably many of the target-specific files presently
scattered throughout gdb's source directory could/should also be)?