[PATCH 08/19] bootwrapper: Rename p and pp to anchor and anchorptr.

[Scott Wood]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:19:55PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 02:41:50PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> > This makes the meaning of "p" clearer, and increases the visual
> > difference between the two to avoid bugs such as the one fixed in
> > "Modify *pp, not *p, in ft_shuffle()".
> 
> Hrm.  This does increase the visual difference, but honestly the
> meaning of "anchor" is not notably more obvious to me than "p".

The idea was that it's where the caller holds on to when the data gets
moved around.  I agree that it's not a great name, but I couldn't think
of anything better (and previously, someone requested that I change the
name from p).  Any suggestions?

-Scott