Skipping all leading double-underbar symbols makes sense to me. Tempting to skip all symbols with more than one digit (or maybe just more than one consecutive digit?), as guessing among per-chip symbols from, say, the ar* or dc* families is an exercise in futility.
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 5:23 AM Theo Buehler <t...@theobuehler.org> wrote: > __retguard_NNNN symbols are easy to recognize and no real fun to guess. > I suggest we skip them. Perhaps we should even skip all __* symbols? > > Index: ksyms.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/games/hangman/ksyms.c,v > retrieving revision 1.12 > diff -u -p -r1.12 ksyms.c > --- ksyms.c 28 Jun 2019 13:32:52 -0000 1.12 > +++ ksyms.c 23 Dec 2021 18:28:02 -0000 > @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ sym_getword(void) > /* ignore symbols containing dots or dollar signs */ > if (strchr(sym, '.') != NULL || strchr(sym, '$') != NULL) > continue; > + /* guessing retguard symbols is no fun */ > + if (strncmp(sym, "__retguard", 10) == 0) > + continue; > > break; > } > >
