[rfa] `struct _bfd' -> `struct bfd'

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> The attached renames the BFD object to `struct bfd' from `struct _bfd'.
>   To ensure backward compatibility with existing code it also #defines
> _bfd -> bfd.

Would this break using bfd from C++?
Or building with pre-ISOC89 compilers?  (Ouch!  Don't hit me! ;-)

> Having `struct bfd' available will, I think, legitimize its use as an
> opaque declaration vis:
>
> 	struct bfd;
> 	void func (struct bfd *abfd);

And "bfd *" does not fit that purpose?

> Also, as far as I know, symbols with a leading `_' live in the system
> name space.

No, it's _ followed by upper-case letter, e.g "_Z".

brgds, H-P