generalizing linux startfile/endfile usage

[Richard Henderson]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:54:27PM +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> some other archs really use arch/linux*.h, but we could shorten code, if 
> they would include the generic linux.h before the specialized version, the 
> specialized versions will carry only the arch-specific defines, without 
> duplicating much of the code that is generic (currently these arch 
> specific linux*.h files seem to be copies from the generic one rewritten 
> for this arch, much redundancy there)

You can't use config/linux.h for alpha without large restructuring of
config/alpha.h, due to the extreme uglyness of the mdebug-in-stabs support.

Surely desirable, yes, but much more work than I've been willing to do.


r~