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Re: sh64-elf (SH5) port
On Feb 5, 2002, Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:-
>> It's not a target hook. It's a generic hook. Think of these hooks as
>> (lambda (&rest args) t) or (lambda (&rest args) nil) fit into the
>> limitations of C, such that we don't have to go into the insanity of
>> adding declarations, definitions and whatnot every time we introduce
>> a new hook, be it a target hook or a language hook. The point is to
>> have some do-nothing functions that can be reused whenever we don't
>> really have to do anything.
> Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. You might want to have a look
> at target.c and langhooks.c; there are probably redundant copies of
> do nothing functions there.
I'll get to that. But I wanted to check whether the idea would fly
before spending more time on that.
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