Re: Installing `struct buffer' patch

[Chong Yidong]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> It may break some builds that I cannot test.  However, in all cases, the
> fix is simple.  The patch renames the fields of `struct buffer', so when
> you see an error arising from `something->field', you can simply change
> that to read `B_ (something, field)'.  Please do not change any code to
> use `BUFFER_INTERNAL_FIELD'.

Hmm, I just realized that the B_ macro doesn't make for very
understandable code.  The name is too cryptic.

What do you think about replacing B_ with lots of individual macros,
like BUF_UNDO_LIST, BUF_NAME, etc.?  This might be ugly in buffer.h, but
the rest of the code would be more understandable.