From: Marc Espie Subject: Re: patch: clean-up m4 function and macro names To: Omar Polo Cc: tech@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:09:27 +0100 On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:02:54PM +0100, Omar Polo wrote: > Marc Espie 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@ > Find somebody else (?) and commit it since I don't have my commit bit back please ;)