+1 for 1, 2 and 3.

Not sure about 4. I am fine with using the macros and prefacing the element 
names but not sure what other issues this might cause so I will abstain.

Will

> On Feb 16, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Sterling Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 1. The STATS_SECT_START and STATS_SECT_END macros just define a struct;
>> they don't create an instance.  Generally, these macros would be used
>> in a header file so that source files can have access to the struct
>> definition.
>> 
>> 2. The addition of a STATS_SECT_DECL macro.  This macro would be used in
>> two places:
>>     * In source files to instantiate a stats struct.
>>     * In header files to expose an extern declaration of a stats
>>       instance.
>> 
>> 3. As a consequence of the above two points: the names of struct
>> instances are no longer auto-generated.  The user needs to specify the
>> exact name.  All macros which derive the instance name from the struct
>> name are changed: now they just accept the instance name directly.
>> 
> 
> 
> +1
> 
> 
>> 4. Remove the "s" which prefaces the name of each stat field in a
>> statistics struct.  By doing this, the STATS_SECT_VAR, STATS_INC, and
>> STATS_INCN macros can be removed.
>> 
> 
> -1
> 
> I think we want these macros used everywhere: they allow us more flexibility 
> to refactor this, and there is a relatively well defined access mechanism for 
> stats.
> 
> Sterling

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