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Re: PATCH, Re: gprof failed to compile
- From: Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: Tom Rix <trix at redhat dot com>, Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:49:10 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: PATCH, Re: gprof failed to compile
- References: <20020131004034.A11597@lucon.org><20020131102905.GS16187@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au><20020131125325.GV16187@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au><3C597E69.4BD7BF24@redhat.com><20020131114151.A3947@nevyn.them.org><15449.30150.716683.789113@casey.transmeta.com><20020131115451.A13913@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> The difficulty is that bfd.h can not use anything based on
> autoconfiguration. Think of that what you may.
>
> What's wrong with handling all cases of bool in bfd.h, since we've
> historically handled most of it there?
bfd.h shouldn't be polluting the namespace like this.
It makes it difficult to include bfd.h in other apps.
They too may have taken the same approach regarding `bool' and boom.
Just because something has been historically done one way doesn't
a priori mean much.