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gas symbols.c functions

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Feb 21 23:50:00 GMT 2002 
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:48:21PM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> These are all functions, yet are named as if they might be macros or
> enum constants (in violation of the GNU coding standard).  Ideally,
> these functions should also be prefixed with `symbol', not `s'.  If
> this was done, the patch would be *huge*.  Comments?

Grin.  I suppose you could rename the functions in symbols.c, and
then define macros like

#define S_IS_FUNCTION symbol_is_function

That should satisfy the standard without a huge patch.

Seriously, many of these functions are macros in old non-bfd
targets.  And no, I don't advocate more macros.

Alan
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