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Re: x86 fpu
>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com> writes:
>> I must confess I'm not up on the technical state of LinuxPPC patches
>> however; I remember Kevin B wanting to make some further changes
>> before incorporating. Kevin?
Kevin> I got my patches working with the head of the development tree several
Kevin> weeks ago. (Actually, Gary Thomas deserves a lot of the credit.)
Kevin> However there are a great many similarities between rs6000-tdep.c and
Kevin> the ppclinux-tdep.c. I would really like to make the common parts
Kevin> truly common as well as revamp it so that it uses the gdbarch
Kevin> machinery, but this'll take more time than I have at the moment. So
Kevin> it might be better for me to commit what I have so that linux/ppc is
Kevin> supported in the Cygnus tree.
I truly hope that you can find/make time to do this right.
It seems that every time GDB's standards have been relaxed to allow
code to be integrated before it is really ready, regardless of the
good intentions of the author/contributor, it is never revisited.
--jtc
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