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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: ARI `asection' and `sec_ptr'
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From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 13:41:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:20:02 -0500"
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Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> Thanks, that was what I was looking for.  I still prefer asection,
> since it's the interface that binutils uses in exported interfaces, but
> I don't have a strong preference.

I really agree with Daniel here in that I think we should use the
types used in the interface definitions as much as possible.  For
stuff internal to GDB we whould of course prefer `struct *foo' over
using a typedf `foo_ptr'.

Mark