Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 02:32:00 GMT 2002

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Hi Philipp,

> bfd/dwarf2.c prefixes errors with 'Dwarf Error' and I'm wondering if
> it might be stylistically better to capitalize it, i.e. use 'DWARF
> Error'.
> Comments?

I think that might not be such a good idea.  Capitalization like that
is normally interpreted as emphasis, so it would appear that bfd is
shouting about a dwarf error, when really it is no more significant
than any other kind of error.

Cheers
        Nick

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