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Re: [PATCH 0/4] baby step toward multi-target


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/18/2014 08:27 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>
>> If this approach seems reasonable then it's not too hard to pull over
>> some of the other target conversions from the branch.
>
> Seems reasonable.  We may or not end up doing things completely
> different wrt to the identify issue and target is pushed/not pushed,
> but meanwhile this lets us progress with making it possible to have
> different instances of a target, so it seems good forward progress.
>
> The series looked good to me.

I'd like to review this for a bit more.

I'd like to understand the tradeoffs of this more:

>>This little series, on the other hand, takes a less invasive approach.
>>The idea here is that rather than doing a huge target_ops split,
>>instead just sometimes make copies of the target_ops when pushing.
>>This lets the copies keep their own state; copies are needed in the
>>long run because multiple target stacks will be active and a given
>>target_ops only has one "beneath" pointer.

Thanks.


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