On 22 Jun 2015 17:29, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Keeping track of the right printf formats for the various types can be
> > a pretty big hassle, especially in common code which has to support a
> > variety of bitsizes.  Take a page from the existing standards and add
> > a set of PRI macros which hide the details in a common header.
> > ---
> >  sim/common/ChangeLog   |  8 ++++++++
> >  sim/common/sim-types.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/sim/common/ChangeLog b/sim/common/ChangeLog
> > index 722ad98..db67a1d 100644
> > --- a/sim/common/ChangeLog
> > +++ b/sim/common/ChangeLog
> > @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
> >  2015-06-21  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
> >
> > +       * sim-types.h (_SIM_PRI_TB, __SIM_PRI_TB): New helper macros for
> > +       expanding target bitsizes into standard PRI formats.
> > +       (PRI_TW, PRIiTW, PRIxTW): New PRI target word defines.
> > +       (PRI_TA, PRIiTA, PRIxTA): New PRI target address defines.
> > +       (PRI_TF, PRIiTF, PRIxTF): New PRI target floating point defines.
> > +
> 
> It's not that big a deal, but _[_A-Z]+ is reserved for the compiler.

i'm aware of that rule, but it hasn't really stopped us in the code base from 
using the _xxx namespace.  the sim-bits.h header in particular uses this to mark 
the internal macros as such.

i'm certainly open to a diff convention of clearly conveying "this is internal" 
if gdb has such a thing.  although it too uses _xxx in a few places :).
-mike