Re: RFC: Collecting together binary file attributes into a single file.

2011-09-29 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Nick Clifton wrote: > Hi Richard, > > > I don't think it's a good idea to have the attributes of > > every CPU we support in a single file. That's going to > > get unmaintainable very quickly. > > Really - why ? > > These attributes are mostly static. Some new ones might

Re: RFC: Collecting together binary file attributes into a single file.

2011-09-29 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Richard, I don't think it's a good idea to have the attributes of every CPU we support in a single file. That's going to get unmaintainable very quickly. Really - why ? These attributes are mostly static. Some new ones might be added from time to time, but baring the introduction of new

Re: RFC: Collecting together binary file attributes into a single file.

2011-09-29 Thread Richard Earnshaw (home)
On 29 Sep 2011, at 10:34, "Nick Clifton" wrote: > Hi Guys, > > All I wanted to do was to make GCC's ARM assembler output slightly > easier to read... > > I would like to propose a patch to create a new header file in the > include/ directory. This file would contain enums describing the >

RFC: Collecting together binary file attributes into a single file.

2011-09-29 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Guys, All I wanted to do was to make GCC's ARM assembler output slightly easier to read... I would like to propose a patch to create a new header file in the include/ directory. This file would contain enums describing the attributes that be can found in SHT_GNU_ATTRIBUTES sections.