[patch] debug mode

Bo Persson bop@gmb.dk
Fri Aug 20 15:08:00 GMT 2010


François Dumont wrote:

> On 08/18/2010 03:11 PM, Paolo Carlini wrote:
>> About __first and __last, I would suggest
>> not changing those to __f and __l if at all possible: short names
>> are always more dangerous vs BADNAMES on some less widespread
>> machines.
> Hi
>
>     Just regarding this point, I grep the lib headers, in bits
> sub-folder there are 730 occurrences of __f and about 940 of __l.
> So I don't think my usage of it in debug mode will introduce any
> regression. Moreover I consider using this technique to limit line
> width when I saw some code in debug headers that was already using
> __f, __l. Do you still want me to revert this point ?
>

I guess the limited line length is supposed to improve readability. 
Obfustacing the names to be able to follow the letter of the law, 
doesn't seem like an improvement.

Just my 2 cents.


Bo Persson



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