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Re: Flatten sysdeps/unix/bsd/bsd4.4 into sysdeps/unix/bsd


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012, David Miller wrote:
>
>> Actually, my initial impression for this case is to simply rename the
>> hppa/alpha foo.s files to foo.S and then remove the prefix rule case
>> for .s entirely.
>>
>> Is there something fundamental blocking that sort of change?
>
> I'm not aware of anything fundamental, or any good reason we need both .S
> and .s sources.
>
> There may of course be particular cases where preprocessing breaks the
> existing code and it needs adjusting to work as a .S file, but it should
> be straightforward for architecture maintainers to identify such cases and
> fix them as part of the .s -> .S renaming. ?Carlos, Richard?

Doing a test build with all .s renamed to .S.

A quick inspection shows that all of them could be moved to .S without problems.

If it works I'll push the change immediately.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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