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Re: small change, groundwork for larger one
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: small change, groundwork for larger one
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 19:39:25 -0400
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
> It's used by alpha, sparc and mips for routines like what you describe.
> Maybe that code is stale now, but it does look pretty recent.
I wasn't keeping track. It should be left as it is then.
> I put them there because I was thinking of gnulib as a directory for
> miscellaneous internal code. They can certainly be moved.
Nope, it's not; it's for functions gcc generates calls to. Miscellaneous
code goes in misc; the only directories one could say are for "internal"
code are csu and elf.
> Daah, I missed that. Moving the subdirs setting might make sense; you could
> postulate other code that needs that too (except maybe it should be
> discouraged?)
It certainly should not be used by anything that doesn't need it for a good
reason. But such changes can be evaluated on their individual merits when
they come up; it seems reasonable to move the list to Makeconfig
(especially since it's affected by config.make information).