From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Berlin <dan@www.cgsoftware.com>
To: "John S. Kallal" <jskallal@home.com>
Cc: <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Is GDB using TYPEDEF identifiers? 
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106212317110.21748-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>
References: <01062113244301.01467@CyberMax>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00179.html

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, John S. Kallal wrote:

> I think that POSIX reserves all identifiers defined with a typedef statement
> that that end with the characters "_t" for use within the POSIX header files.
> I note that the GDB source code uses a lot a such identifiers.  Should
> we change to another suffix such as "_td" and document that requirement
> in the GDB coding rules within file 'gdbint.texinfo'?

Um, why?
POSIX says a lot of things that are well, dumb.
This is just one of them.

Besides, GDB is not beholden to POSIX.

When the C 'XX standard says not to do it, we'd probably stop doing it.

--Dan