From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rename and clean unexec.c Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:39:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83zkx9bhhm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83hbjjcxex.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk33pdpf.fsf@telefonica.net> <83aapbcoqs.fsf@gnu.org> <838w4vc7gs.fsf@gnu.org> <834oficgpf.fsf@gnu.org> <8339v2c9ea.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280471999 23810 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2010 06:39:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 30 08:39:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OejG9-00006w-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:39:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OejG8-00080B-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33253 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OejG2-0007zE-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OejG0-0002xv-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:60931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OejFz-0002xc-Em; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L6C00400YGRRY00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:39:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.19.236]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L6C00L1AYI7DZK0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:39:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127999 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:18:02 -0400 > > I am not sure why are so opposed to this. Not "so opposed", just opposed. I'm opposed in principle to every cosmetic change that doesn't have a very good reason. That's because such changes obscure real code changes and make forensics harder. > Let me repeat the arguments. > We have a generic function "unexec", most programmers would look for > the normal implementation in unexec.c, but that's the wrong place for > everyone, except you. I don't expect anyone to look at unexec, unless they already know quite a lot about it, including the fact that different ABIs need different versions of it.