Re: RFA: Separate i386 embed targets configuration

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
>    Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 17:36:51 +0000
>    From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>
> 
>    "J.T. Conklin" wrote:
>    >
>    > I suggested a i386/tm-embed.h some months ago.  I didn't really have
>    > anything to put in it at the time, it was more for the clarification
>    > of a separate target config would bring than for anything else.  As I
>    > remember, the change was neither accepted or rejected.  I put it into
>    > our repository and forgot about it.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>    > What does your tm-embed.h file look like?
>    >
> 
>    The initial version, like yours, just includes tm-i386v.h.  But I have in
>    my sandbox a few entries which I plan to submit in the future.
> 
> Fernando, go ahead and check in the patch, together with your
> tm-embed.h that hust includes tm-i386v.h (we want to keep those
> targets building :-)).
> 
Thanks ark.  Sure, I will keep it equivalent to what is today.
Any change to that will be submitted for approval in the usual ways.


> However, do i386-elf, i386-coff and i386-aout really have something to
> do with System V?  If not, it might be worth considering to include
> tm-i386.h instead of tm-i386v.h from your new tm-embed.h once you
> start modifying it.
> 

That is a good point.  I will take a look at what could possibly be useful
from the Sys V file.  Including it doesn't look right.  If one or two 
macros are being used we may consider copying them.



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