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Re: [RFC] Alternate approach to keeping convenience variables
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:12:36 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Alternate approach to keeping convenience variables
- References: <4381DC75.80800@st.com> <8f2776cb0511212138g2adef40cr1632365c00e3bebc@mail.gmail.com> <43835114.5060401@st.com> <20051209205923.GA21331@nevyn.them.org> <20060122213118.GH27224@nevyn.them.org> <u7j8leevl.fsf@gnu.org>
On 1/27/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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.