RFC: Moving C to its own directory

[Steven Bosscher]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

>Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:
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>>Following a brief discussion with rth at the summit, and just
>>now on IRC, I thought I'd post what the current plan is.
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>>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.
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>>I originally suggested fe/c/c/ fe/c/cp/ and fe/c/objc, but Zack
>>thought that was overkill and made configury harder, though I
>>still like the separation myself.
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>>cp/, f/ and java/ and (ugh) ada/ should be moved too, but I'm not
>>volounteering to do those.
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>Separating the files so that we have for each "module" or logical unit
>a separate directory, sounds fine!
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>Will this also result in a backend directory?
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Then we'll first have to un-tangle some middle-end/front-end 
dependencies (such as STATEMENT_CODE_P and other tree-inliner things, 
various flags, etc.) or it will still be messy.

Gr.
Steven