ARI `asection' and `sec_ptr'

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Feb 24 14:25:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:43:26AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Assuming I'm reading the code right.  BFD has the declarations:
> 
> typedef struct sec
> {
>   ...
> } asection;
> typedef struct sec *sec_ptr;
> 
> GDB uses all three (sec_ptr, asection, struct sec) and that makes things 
> pretty confusing.  Consequently, I've added asection and sec_ptr to the 
> ARI.  Instead people can use `struct sec *' which is consistent with 
> GDB's other types.

Must you?  BFD makes a conscious effort to (almost always) use
asection* in its interfaces.  If you want to reduce bfd.h includes,
solve this one in BFD too.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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