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Re: [patch 1/9]#2 Rename `enum target_signal' to target_signal_t
- From: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:38:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch 1/9]#2 Rename `enum target_signal' to target_signal_t
- References: <E1Oq55N-0006ia-B0@fencepost.gnu.org> <20100901181830.GB2986@adacore.com> <20100901182943.GA23673@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 19:29:43, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> I found target_signal_t to be more convenient than `struct target_signal'.
> Some coding styles never use the `struct' types and always use typedef for any
> struct defined (more matching C++). target_signal operations are mostly fully
> encapsulated in the patch so it does not have to be clear to its user it is in
> fact a dereferencable struct.
>
> Another point I was tracking with these changes is to make the patching
> easier=automatic. I can do s/\benum target_signal\b/target_signal_t/g and be
> done with it as strlen rhs is smaller than strlen of lhs.
> `struct target_signal' is longer and thus causing line wrapping requiring many
> adjustments of GNU coding style 78 columns compliance by hand.
Weren't you proposing to end up with something like
"typedef struct target_signal target_signal"?
Then you'd do "s/enum target_signal/target_signal/g" , which is
shorter.
> (This reindentation affects also the typedef name `gdb_target_signal_t'
> although it would not affect `gdb_target_signal'. Still there would be less
> reindentation cases than in the `struct gdb_target_signal' case.)
Everything that's behind the debug API abstraction is currently
called target_... (mostly target_ops and its methods), which is
I think the reason `enum target_signal' is called what it is called.
But, if you guys want to rename the type, I won't stand in the way,
thought I'd suggest simply gdb_signal. One of "gdb or "target" in
"gdb_target" appears redundant to me.
--
Pedro Alves