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Re: RFC: Moving C to its own directory
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- Cc: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 13:08:10 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: Moving C to its own directory
- References: <900832A3-9534-11D7-948C-00039344BF4A@gnat.com>
Geert Bosch <bosch@gnat.com> writes:
> On Sunday, Jun 1, 2003, at 15:19 America/New_York, Neil Booth wrote:
>> Following a brief discussion with rth at the summit, and just
>> now on IRC, I thought I'd post what the current plan is.
>>
>> 1) Create a directory fe/
>> 2) Create a directory fe/c/
>> 3) Move c-specific and C common files, like c-lex.c, there.
>> 4) Move objc/ to fe/ too.
>
> Can't we just have directories c/ objc/ cp/ java/ etc?
> I don't quite see what the extra fe/ level buys us.
Additional structure. Farther down the road, people are considering
having subdirectories for tree and RTL optimizers and "back end"
logic, at which point it is nice to be able to distinguish front end
directories.
zw