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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''.


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