From: Sebastien Marie Subject: Re: patch: clean-up m4 function and macro names To: Omar Polo , Marc Espie Cc: tech@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:39:38 +0100 "Omar Polo" writes: > 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@ ok semarie@ too op@, you commit it :) -- Sebastien Marie