[patch] Lno branch merge -- scalar evolutions analyzer

[Zack Weinberg]

Sebastian Pop <sebastian.pop@cri.ensmp.fr> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:12:07PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> 
>> Do you think that these accessor functions are worth it?  It seems like 
>> we already have a ton of code that just does "e->src", etc.  It seems to 
>> me like we should just use the "->" form, unless we want to go through 
>> and change all the existing code.  I don't think this is a big deal one 
>> way or the other, though.
>> 
>
> IMO it is a better practice to access the fields of a struct via
> functions or macros.

I disagree vehemently.  When the function or macro does nothing other
than the pointer dereference, it is obfuscation.

(You're not going to get consensus on this.)

zw