Re: [PATCH v8 00/21] Compile-time stack validation

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Aug 06 2015 - 22:39:01 EST


On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 12:23:32PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:07:50AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > This is v8 of the compile-time stack validation patch set, based on the
> > > tip/master branch.
> > >
> > > The frame pointer macros are still called FRAME and ENDFRAME because I
> > > don't think we converged on anything else yet. Otherwise I tried to
> > > address all the other review comments from v7.
> >
> > So I think:
> >
> > FRAME_START
> > FRAME_END
>
> (One last tweak to the bikeshed)
>
> The antonym of END is BEGIN. So how about:
>
> FRAME_BEGIN
> FRAME_END

Ok, so thesaurus.com reminds me that words can have more than one
antonym, and that START and BEGIN are both antonyms of END.

Personally, when I START something I usually FINISH it or even STOP it.

So I'll stop the bikeshedding I started and go with BEGIN/END.

--
Josh
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