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Re: Remove parameter names from libiberty.h

From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
To: tg at 66h dot 42h dot de
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:40:42 -0400
Subject: Re: Remove parameter names from libiberty.h
References: <20050412012121.GA3321@bubble.modra.org><200504132357.j3DNvcF1028534@caip.rutgers.edu> <Pine.BSO.4.61L.0504140739230.17420@thor.66h.42h.de>

Opinions follow...

Since libiberty has a separate texinfo documentation that's supposed
to document all the parameters, and since most of libiberty's
functions are common system functions anyway, IMHO it's not as big a
deal if libiberty.h doesn't have names of parameters in it.

In DJGPP we got around this by adding underscores, but that was
acceptable only because it was the C library and that namespace was
reserved for it.

Commented out parameter names gets messy fast, esp for functions with
lots of parameters.

References:
- libiberty.h
  - From: Alan Modra
- Remove parameter names from libiberty.h
  - From: Kaveh R. Ghazi
- Re: Remove parameter names from libiberty.h
  - From: Thorsten Glaser

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