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Re: [RFC] Preliminary target abstraction patch
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Preliminary target abstraction patch
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:23:28 -0700
- cc: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
--On Thursday, June 21, 2001 08:18:24 PM +0100 "Joseph S. Myers"
<jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Neil Booth wrote:
>
>> This is an initial version of a patch to get the target framework in
>> place. It puts 4 functions into a "gcc_target" structure, with an
>> external instance of that structure called "target". arm is the most
>> interesting target - 3 of the 4 are overridden.
This is great!
I really wish, though, that you would change the name for the type from
`gcc_target'
to `a_target' or `target_type'. I think that we need a convention for type
names, and
`gcc_' doesn't seem like the right one -- everything in GCC could be
prefixed with `gcc_'.
Thanks,
--
Mark Mitchelll mark@codesourcery.com
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