[LLVMdev] MachineOperand: GlobalAddress vs. ExternalSymbol

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Reid Spencer wrote:

> sure, that's reasonable. I'll make the patch but later this weekend ..
> bigger fish to fry :)

Oh yes definitely.  More to the point, do you think that a change like
would really help?

-Chris

> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 22:44, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:13, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > >
> > > > Module::gbegin/gend iterate over the global variables, and ::begin/end
> > > > iterate over the functions, some of which may be prototypes.
> > >
> > > This confused Vladimir and I remember it confusing me when I was
> > > reviewing LLVM core a few months ago. Would it be worthwhile to consider
> > > naming these globals_begin/globals_end and
> > > functions_begin/functions_end? so their use is completely clear?
> >
> > Sure, they can be renamed.  For commonly used methods like this I would
> > like to keep them relatively terse though.  How about gvbegin/end and
> > funcbegin/end?  Would anyone like to make a patch?  :)
> >
> > -Chris
>

-Chris

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