From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FRAME_PTR vs "struct frame *" Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:40:22 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122588330 23506 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2005 22:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 29 00:05:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyGU1-0000GH-AJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:04:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyGWU-0001ix-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:06:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DyGQk-0007DC-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DyGQh-0007Bo-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyGQh-00075m-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.193] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DyGIN-00046N-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i6so530140wra for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:40:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tTOdiTqSaaOSgsQUfYUgclbKXmuoYruamrUxF23Vjz4w9ag8hpwOY7/eecV5yprT9+K2K/cHGQmVVqhPpyCBv6Z7RbHuqbHS4RQq7uNgALlR5umJqUqPZgBuS7FmrGIB5LQ0D0CQ+pxkfiBaqiHZxzUamLQJF9Zn+WkXsTfmpHE= Original-Received: by 10.54.27.5 with SMTP id a5mr300635wra; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.157.14 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:41278 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41278 2005/7/29, Juanma Barranquero : > The FRAME_PTR macro seems not too successful: there are ~1300 uses of > "struct frame *" on 39 files, vs. ~270 uses of FRAME_PTR on 30 files. >=20 > Should this be unified, eventually? It seems completely pointless to have an obfuscating macro (ok it's actually a typedef) like FRAME_PTR. It's very old, though so maybe there was some reason a long time ago... I'd say, get rid of it. -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.