From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Nick Duffek <nsd@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, insight@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Register group proposal
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:25:00 -0000
Message-id: <3A955915.446740B3@cygnus.com>
References: <3A9547ED.E7CFE51C@cygnus.com> <200102221824.f1MIOAM03260@rtl.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00217.html

Nick Duffek wrote:

> I think there should be explicit agreement by the GDB community before we
> adopt such an unusual standard.  Maybe there has been, though, and I've
> missed it.

This convention was agreed to some two years ago when gdbarch and ui-out
were started.  True it wasn't added to the gdbint.texinfo file (back
then nothing was being added to that file :-( ) and some of the
discussion may have occured privatly.  However, since then, I've never
been presented with a compelling argument to to drop this convention and
start down a new random path.

As for the idea, It is lifted from old UNIX header files.

	enjoy,
		Andrew