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Re: [PATCH] gdb: Move DJGPP/go32 bits to their own tdep file
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:25:56 +0100
>
> >> Thanks, but why single out go32?
> >
> > Because incremental progress.
>
> Specifically, the "trouble finding djgpp bits" I'm referring to
> happened after you pointed me that djgpp needed a tweak too:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-03/msg00538.html
>
> At first, I didn't see a tdep file and so I thought that I'd have
> to add one, and maybe come up with a djgpp arch sniffer. It took
> me a few minutes to realize that we already have go32-specific
> tdep bits in the generic i386 file. So that's my only
> motivation -- exactly to make it easier to spot the djgpp bits
> quicker. There's no other rationale behind this. If I'll have to
> go do more things to other ports to get this in, I'm afraid I'll
> just drop the patch, because _I_ will have learned about them and
> know next time where to look.
It's fine with me if you decide to make only that change. I just
think that if you had this difficulty with go32 bits, someone else
might have the same difficulty with SVR4 bits. That's why I wrote
what I wrote.