From: "Omar Polo" <op@omarpolo.com>
Subject: Re: patch: clean-up m4 function and macro names
To: Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:02:54 +0100

Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it made sense to abbreviate things randomly 20 years ago,
> but today, it only makes it more difficult to find things.
> 
> This patch renames a bunch of defines and function names to make
> things simpler to follow.
> 
> Also reformat some comments with ludicrously short lines.
> 
> Some editorial choices: eval is the actual sanctionned macro name,
> mkstemp reflects the actual semantics we chose.
> 
> And we keep unix as "selftype" since it could be used for other OS markers.
> 
> Also, rename indx to doindex to remove any ambiguity towards idx and
> strstr, since the return values are notably different, and it matches
> what actually happens.
> 
> There should be zero functional changes, just something that's clearer.

not familiar with the guts of m4 but agreed that this is an overall
improvement.

fwiw (which is not much :P), okay op@