From: Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>,
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>,
binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Replace strdup with xstrdup in tic30-dis.c
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FB27253C-019A-11D7-8DF6-00039396EEB8@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34ra3ewpr.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>
Along those lines, I like bfd_boolean because it's a reminder that the
routine uses (what I have always found to be) non-intuitive error-code
semantics. Without it, I would find myself typing
if (bfd_do_something () != 0)
bfd_perror ("hosed")
even more often than I do already.
Like Ian, I'm certainly not fanatical about the issue either.
On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 06:29 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
>
>> Hmm, I'm inclined to just use "int" directly rather than introduce a
>> "bfd_boolean". Unless I hear objections, that's what I'll do one of
>> these days..
>
> I tend to think that bfd_boolean is better because it makes the code
> slightly more self-documenting. An int variable might hold any value,
> but a bfd_boolean variable is clearly intended to hold only a true or
> false value.
>
> But I'm hardly fanatical about it.
>
> Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-26 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <555D137A-FB43-11D6-84AF-00039396EEB8@apple.com>
[not found] ` <20021119071305.GM997@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>
2002-11-19 8:26 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-19 13:42 ` Alan Modra
2002-11-19 14:09 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-19 18:05 ` Klee Dienes
2002-11-20 8:05 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-20 15:09 ` Alan Modra
2002-11-20 22:56 ` Klee Dienes
2002-11-26 14:03 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-26 14:37 ` Alan Modra
2002-11-26 15:28 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2002-11-26 15:57 ` Alan Modra
2002-11-26 16:15 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-27 16:44 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-11-27 21:55 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2002-11-28 14:39 ` Alan Modra
2002-11-28 15:23 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-28 21:04 ` Alan Modra
2002-11-29 0:41 ` Doug Evans
2002-11-29 4:02 ` Ben Elliston
2002-11-26 15:58 ` Klee Dienes [this message]
2002-11-27 11:37 ` David O'Brien
2002-11-26 16:23 Doug Evans
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