Re: ARI `asection' and `sec_ptr'

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-24T14:25:03Z

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:43:26AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Assuming I'm reading the code right. BFD has the declarations:
>
> typedef struct sec
> {
> ...
> } asection;
> typedef struct sec *sec_ptr;
>
> GDB uses all three (sec_ptr, asection, struct sec) and that makes things
> pretty confusing. Consequently, I've added asection and sec_ptr to the
> ARI. Instead people can use `struct sec *' which is consistent with
> GDB's other types.

Must you? BFD makes a conscious effort to (almost always) use
asection* in its interfaces. If you want to reduce bfd.h includes,
solve this one in BFD too.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer