ARI `asection' and `sec_ptr'

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Sat Mar 1 15:13:00 GMT 2003


> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> 
> 
>> Thanks, that was what I was looking for.  I still prefer asection,
>> since it's the interface that binutils uses in exported interfaces, but
>> I don't have a strong preference.


> I really agree with Daniel here in that I think we should use the
> types used in the interface definitions as much as possible.  For
> stuff internal to GDB we whould of course prefer `struct *foo' over
> using a typedf `foo_ptr'.

The interfaces defined in "bfd.h" uses both "asection" (~35) and "struct 
sec" (~25) so it is not that clear cut.

Per my earlier post, I've sort clarification on this matter.  So far, 
`struct bfd *' has already been formalized.

Andrew




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