On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:38:02 +0000 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oh the name is dreadful! Better name suggestions much appreciated. And kernel developers are notorious at picking bad names. > > > Perhaps "sym-file" ? > > ... Yes, except that it also decorates with built-in module names. > > > Or does this happen only when there's more than one function? Either way, > > let's try to come up with something other than "sym-unambiguous". > > It happens only when at least one symbol in a given (object file * > built-in module) pair would be ambiguous with respect to some other > symbol with the same name without being given at least one of those two. > It's a bit hard to pack into a couple of words... sym-unique is even > worse, sym-objname is deeply unclear (what's an objname?) sym-filenames > maybe? The question really is what property users care about, and I was > hoping it would be that with this option turned on you can always tell > all symbols apart from all other symbols. sym-nodups ? sym-differentiate ? I don't think sym-unique is worse than sym-unambigous We could always put this question out to social media. -- Steve
