From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11689 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2006 18:12:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 11669 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jan 2006 18:12:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.204) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:12:38 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so709208nzd for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.65 with SMTP id e65mr2719327nzi; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.5 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:12:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0601271012r1f321d1sea21282770420ab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:12:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFC] Alternate approach to keeping convenience variables Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Andrew STUBBS In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4381DC75.80800@st.com> <8f2776cb0511212138g2adef40cr1632365c00e3bebc@mail.gmail.com> <43835114.5060401@st.com> <20051209205923.GA21331@nevyn.them.org> <20060122213118.GH27224@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00448.txt.bz2 On 1/27/06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > FWIW, I never understood the ``macros are bad, m'kay?'' policy, > either. To be clear, I don't like that policy either. It just asserts that something is better (in a condescending/dopey way, no less), without justification or context. I hope I did better than that when I explained why I think TYPE_ALLOC and TYPE_ZALLOC should be functions.