Re: [PATCH 0/3] remove overlapping allocation macros

[Doug Evans <dje@google.com>]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> Right now, gdb defines some allocation macros in defs.h, specifically
> XZALLOC, XMALLOC, and XCALLOC.  libiberty also defines similar
> allocation macros, and gdb uses both variants.
>
> I think it's somewhat nicer if gdb uses just a single set of wrapper
> macros, and so this patch series replaces all the uses of the gdb
> macros with the corresponding macros from libiberty.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Tested by rebuilding on x86-64 Fedora 18 and doing a cross build to
> mingw.  It's possible therefore that there are some buglets remaining.

I'm all for the increased simplicity.
I just wish libiberty's macro naming didn't suck so badly.
[Not necessarily a fault at the time, but it sucks now. :-)]

E.g., after this series, "vec" use to have a more specific connotation,
(I could at least ignore libiberty's choice),
and I hate it when terms with good specific connotations get polluted.
There's a material downgrade in the readability of the code when
that happens.

Fortunately, I guess this will only be a temporary material downgrade,
since vec -> stl::vector soon.