PATCH, Re: gprof failed to compile

[Doug Evans]

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.