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Re: [PATCH roland/nptl-sparc] Move remaining SPARC code out of nptl/.


From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:08:40 -0700 (PDT)

> 2. The sparc internaltypes.h doesn't actually define anything differently
>    from the common one.  It just adds extra types that are used only by a
>    few sparc implementation .c files.  So it could just be a separate
>    sparc-specific header by a different name.  This might be what's really
>    the best idea, on the general principle that if you can do your
>    machine-specific work just as cleanly with new machine-specific files
>    that do not interact with shared sysdeps files, then that choice
>    simplifies things by reducing such interactions that you or other
>    maintainers have to worry about in the future.

I think this is the way to go, regardless of what you end up doing with
internaltypes.h

I'll work on this.


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