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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>,
	       Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] inf-ptrace: Do not stop memory transfers after a single word
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <179457d2-c2aa-dd8d-d9c2-e1d3cca93930@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a22f112-9443-b796-9f34-aee112b63625@ericsson.com>

On 03/10/2017 03:48 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:

> I don't the idea behind that rule.  I thought it was just for readability,
> to make it clear that the variable is a pointer without having to refer to the
> declaration.  Perhaps some older timers could shed some light on that :).

I don't know the original rationale, but I agree that nowadays the
justification can only be in terms of readability.  The same reason we
do
 if (integer_that_is_not_a_boolean != 0)
instead of
 if (integer_that_is_not_a_boolean)
.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-13 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-06 16:01 [PATCH 0/3] PR gdb/21220: Fix quadratic runtime of memory writes into inferior on GNU/Linux Andreas Arnez
2017-03-06 16:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] inf-ptrace: Do not stop memory transfers after a single word Andreas Arnez
2017-03-08 19:10   ` Simon Marchi
2017-03-09 17:22     ` Andreas Arnez
2017-03-10 15:49       ` Simon Marchi
2017-03-13 19:39         ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2017-03-13 19:50           ` Andreas Arnez
2017-03-13 19:51             ` Pedro Alves
2017-03-14 15:12               ` Andreas Arnez
2017-03-14 15:23                 ` Pedro Alves
2017-03-06 16:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] Test case for dump/restore of large array Andreas Arnez
2017-03-13 19:51   ` Pedro Alves
2017-03-06 16:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] linux-nat: Exploit /proc/<pid>/mem for writing Andreas Arnez
2017-03-13 20:05   ` Pedro Alves
2017-03-13 20:08     ` Pedro Alves
2017-03-14 11:23       ` Andreas Arnez
2017-03-14  9:54     ` Andreas Arnez

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