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To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] [2.5.49] symbol_get doesn't work
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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Date: 29 Nov 2002 10:31:30 +0900
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Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> > > int *ptr = symbol_get(their_integer);
> > > if (!ptr) ...
>
> That's because it's a new primitive.  Very few places really want to
> use it, they usually just want to use the symbol directly.  However,
> there are some places where such a dependency is too harsh: it's more
> "if I can get this, great, otherwise I'll do something else".

I find the name a bit wierd, BTW -- it sounds like it's going to return
the _value_ of the symbol.  How about something like `symbol_addr' instead?

-Miles
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