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Re: [PATCH] Add sysdeps/x86/i686
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> What's the benefit of adding a new sysdeps directory?
>
> For the common Makefile parts you could just move them into a
> sysdeps/i386/i686/cacheinfo.mk and sysdeps/i386/i686/hp-timing.mk and
> then include those from both sysdeps/.../Makefile files.
>
> For the source files what sysdeps/x86_64/hp-timing.h already does
> is better than #ifdef's in the shared file.
>
I'd like to put common sources between i686 and x86-64 under
sysdeps/x86/i686 instead of duplicating them. I have a patch
to move common x86 multiarch sources to sysdeps/x86/i686/multiarch.
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H.J.