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Re: [patch/rfc] Don't assume the host
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:38:25 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> >
> > The way I see it, "Porting GDB" is a cookbook: it should list the
> > necessary steps without explaining their rationale too much. It
> > should refer to "Host Definition" for more info, wherever appropriate.
> > "Host Definition", by contrast, should explain as much as possible
> > each of the components of the host definition machinery.
>
> Ah, ok. Yes, that makes sense. Should ``Porting GDB'' be moved to
> before the host, architecture and target sections (and add a native
> section?). That way the user is lead into the other chapters. Porting
> GDB being a brief overview.
Yes, if we say in ``Porting GDB'' that it's an overview, and the other
chapters describe the stuff in more details, it would make a lot of
sense to move ``Porting GDB''.