Re: New directory src/gdb/misc?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer