From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: bfd_read and bfd_write
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:45:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B965696.70401@cygnus.com>
References: <20010905145037.K13524@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00038.html

> I have a (rather large) patch to clean up a few things in bfd that I'd
> like to apply in the next day or so, but first thought I'd better give
> people fair warning and a chance to object.
> 
> One of the changes I've made is to bfd_read, and similarly bfd_write.
> 
>  bfd_size_type
> -bfd_read (ptr, size, nitems, abfd)
> +bfd_read (ptr, size, abfd)
>       PTR ptr;
>       bfd_size_type size;
> -     bfd_size_type nitems;
>       bfd *abfd;


rather than change the function signature, why not introduce a new 
interface and then deprecate the old one?


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