Re: timevar: small tweaks

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Bruno,

> Le 30 sept. 2018 à 01:09, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Akim,
> 
> How about the following patches:
> 
> * In timevar.c: Include timevar.h first. This is a Gnulib best practice, which
>  has the benefit of verifying that the header file is self-contained.
> 
> * In timevar.def:
>  - The DEFTIMEVAR invocation must NOT be followed by a semicolon, otherwise
>    you'll get a syntax error in the enum definition.
>  - Enum values are not positive integers. The first enum value is 0.
>  - What is the difference between a "character string" and a "string"?
>  - The statement that the timing table is printed in the given order
>    contradicts the comment in timevar.h.
> 
> * In timevar.h:
>  - Better talk about the program or the application, not the « compiler".

All this is good, of course.

>  - It is pointless to omit the parameter names from the function declarations
>    if the comments talk about TIMEVAR, ELAPSED, FP, etc.

Here, I don’t understand why you commented the argument names.
It would be clearer with them uncommented.  I should have done
that when converting to ANSI C.

Also, maybe the extern C.  I see several modules have it.

> * In the module description:
>  Are you subscribed to bug-gnulib?

Nope.

> If not, you should be listed as the
>  maintainer of the modules, so that people CC you when they have questions
>  or patches about it.

Sure!