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Re: RFA: Search for symbol names the same way they're hashed.


On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:20:30PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:02:03 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> said:
> 
> > Dare I suggest SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME?  That is, the only name we should
> > search for when we're looking up this function in symbol tables.
> > Since that's the other use.
> 
> That makes sense; the main thing that worries me is that I'm not sure
> that we might not sometimes search by other names (at least in the
> minimal symbol table?).  I think that, if SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME didn't
> already exist, then I'd prefer SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME to
> SYMBOL_SEARCH_NAME; but there's probably some advantage to not having
> anything called SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME.  Hmm; I could go either way on
> this one.

I'd rather not _change_ the meaning of SYMBOL_SOURCE_NAME; either leave
it or eliminate it.  I don't mind either of those.

I don't see a real benefit to renaming it...

> 
> > I agree about SYMBOL_PRINT_NAME... or, how about
> > SYMBOL_PRINTABLE_NAME?
> 
> SYMBOL_PRINT_NAME is better, I think: lots of names are printable, but
> we're only going to print one of them.  (Though I like the idea of a
> function SYMBOL_PRINTABLE_NAME that takes an unprintable symbol name
> and bowdlerizes it by putting asterisks in place of swear words...)
> 
> David Carlton
> carlton@math.stanford.edu
> 

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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