Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 15:01 07.07.2003, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:50:06PM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > On Monday 07 July 2003 13:14, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> >
> >  > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:24:43AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >  > > Note that GAS accepts both syntaxes, so if every supported target is
> >  > > using GAS then we can rip it out immediately.
> >  >
> >  >   Not every GAS version supports it. Why removing MIT syntax? The same
> >  > could be demanded for Motorola syntax...
> >
> >  Maintaing both syntaxes adds complexity
>
>   Yes, but not that much.
>
> > and makes every change to the m68k back-end harder to write and test.
>
>   No. If you don't like the #idefs then make MOTOROLA a 0/1 define and use
>   real if()s.

No, that's not how it works with open source. If _you_ want to keep a 
rarely necessary feature that makes maintenance a nightmare (see grep 
"#.*include" gcc/config/m68k/*.h|wc -l), it's _your_ task to spend some 
time on it (namely convert #include's to $tm_file in config.gcc). And note 
that this isn't just an isolated m68k issue, everyone doing compilerwide 
cleanups usually stumbles over m68k :-(.

Franz.