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Re: rename and clean unexec.c


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: rename and clean unexec.c
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:06:27 +0300

> From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:55:45 -0400
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:13:16 +0200
> >> 
> >> Speaking as someone who is getting familiar with the code base, it is
> >> useful to see a hint on the name about its platform-specific nature.
> >
> > unexec.c is not DOS-specific.  It is for any platform that uses COFF.
> > It just so happens that MSDOS is the only one that still does.
> 
> Then let's call it unexcoff.c then so that it follows some kind of
> rule like all the other unexec files.  It's not very logical to refuse
> to change the least used one.

Why is it so important to rename this file?  I'm not against renaming
in general, if there is a good reason.  I just don't see any such
reasons in this case.  Without a good reason, renaming is just a
nuisance, albeit a minor one.





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