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Re: [patch] some mindless additions of BLOCK_ macros


On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:04:04PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >I recently noticed that the BLOCK_ macros weren't used everywhere they
> >could be.  I know Andrew doesn't like macros, but given that these
> >ones are used almost everywhere, they might as well be used
> >everywhere.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> It's more that I like opaque types - it is all about `control' - with an 
> opaque type it simply isn't possible to sneak in [old] code that grubs 
> around in the internals.  You could consider block.[hc]?
> 
> (I need to come clean and admit that I'm quietly moving all the frame 
> specific stuff out of blockframe.c and into frame.c so it can be opaque. 
>  I suspect everone guessed this long ago, though :-)

Hey, I didn't even notice the trick you were pulling until yesterday :)

I admit C++ grows more attractive every passing day though.  Thing we
can take the leap, in a few years maybe?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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