GDB's #include file policy revisited
Mark Kettenis
kettenis@wins.uva.nl
Fri Sep 7 04:31:00 GMT 2001
>From the intefnals manual:
With the exception of the global definitions supplied by `defs.h', a
header file should explictily include the header declaring any
`typedefs' et.al. it refers to.
The header `gdbtypes.h' uses `struct block *' in a few function
prototypes, which isn't declared in the file itself. The rule above
seems to suggest that we should include `symtab.h'. Alternatively, we
could simply use a forward declaration for `struct block *' in
`gdbtypes.h'. That would avoid dragging in a lot of unecessary
cruft. Some of the `tm.h' headers already do something like that, see
for example `config/i386/tm-i386.h'. Do people agree that this is the
right thing to do? Should I submit a patch for the internals manual
to turn this into an official policy?
Mark
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