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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: drow@false.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [OB] comment fix, corelow.c
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200522604.3263.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801162219.m0GMJhKt023027@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 23:19 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:11:42 -0800
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:04 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:16:58PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > > > cut and paste botch...
> > > 
> > > FYI, no objection, but I think it was right the way it was too...
> > > 
> > > >  	return (*ops->deprecated_xfer_memory) (offset, readbuf,
> > > > -					       len, 0/*write*/, NULL, ops);
> > > > +					       len, 0/*read*/, NULL, ops);
> > > 
> > > The value of the parameter is 0, and its name was write.
> > 
> > I don't think the comment refers to the name of the parameter.
> > 
> > If you look, there are two adjacent calls to xfer_memory:
> > 
> > if (readbuf)
> >   return (*ops->deprecated_xfer_memory) (offset, readbuf,
> >                                          len, 0/*read*/, NULL, ops);
> > if (writebuf)
> >   return (*ops->deprecated_xfer_memory) (offset, (gdb_byte *) writebuf,
> >                                          len, 1/*write*/, NULL, ops);
> > 
> > One call is a read, the other is a write.
> > 
> > None of the other parameters have their names in a comment.
> 
> And if you ask me having those comments is silly in the first place.
> It's much better to have appropriate #defines and use those instead.

Right.  The comments are in lieu of constants.

But by fixing the comment, I did not necessarily volunteer
to fix the lack of constants.   ;-)





      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16  1:17 Michael Snyder
2008-01-16 14:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-16 22:12   ` Michael Snyder
2008-01-16 22:20     ` Mark Kettenis
2008-01-16 22:30       ` Michael Snyder [this message]

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