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Re: (Fwd) Re: Absolute paths in BFD
- To: alan at linuxcare dot com dot au
- Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: Absolute paths in BFD
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 17:17:21 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: phdm at macqel dot be, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, snowball3 at bigfoot dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005060909190.12523-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 09:19:35 +1000 (EST)
> From: Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>
>
> > Why not change IS_ABSOLUTE into something else, like
> > OK_TO_PREPEND_DIRECTORY_NAME or NEED_PREPENDED_DIRECTORY_NAME ?
>
> I was going to suggest something like this, but like you, I couldn't
> think of a suitably short name. Seeing IS_ABSOLUTE in the body of the
> code conveys it's intended function well enough. It is only when someone
> looks at the definition that they might become confused and think the
> macro needs "fixing" to properly test for an absolute dos file.
I agree with Alan.