Re: With a wacky macro before it, 'global' appears to miss a function

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

> > But "file-based" cannot cover mixed code like follows:
> > 
> > http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sim/m32r/sim-if.c?rev=1.13&content-type=text/x-cvsw
> 
> No it would not. And it would not solve world hunger either :-)
> 
> I have little mercy for such horribly inconsistent code. Users would
> probably have to make a choice between one or the other mode for this
> file, whichever works best for it. But they should rather fix the
> function prototypes to make this file internally consistent; this
> would be a small and harmless change.

You are right. It was improper point.
"file base" is one of right views.

> Let me re-iterate my preference: I think global should first and
> foremost focus on doing a great and reliable job on *decent* code,
> using a reasonable number of simple parsing rules, and a minimum
> number of options (ideally zero). I LOVE the fact that global
> currently works out of the box, in seconds, without any single command
> line option to use, and almost no documentation to read. If that
> causes global to miss a few dark corner cases then it is no big
> deal. Just warn users they should not expect perfection.

Thank you for the statement.
I agree completely.
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