RFA: correctly detect overlapping overlays

Jim Blandy jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com
Mon Aug 13 07:39:00 GMT 2001


Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> > +   CORE_ADDR a_start = a->vma;
> > +   CORE_ADDR a_end   = a->vma + bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (a);
> > +   CORE_ADDR b_start = b->vma;
> > +   CORE_ADDR b_end   = b->vma + bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (b);
> 
> 
> Jim, just a reminder on coding style.
> There isn't any reason to (and probably good reason to not) lay out the 
> code so carefully.  It just makes the task of someone running indent 
> over the code all the more confusing.

I hadn't thought of people running indent.  I'll fix that.

But I do think it's a shame.  When layout can expose symmetry in what
you're doing, it makes it easier to read the code.



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