From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Regression in exec.c (print_section_info) ?
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 08:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18461.25711.638756.456973@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209763929.4615.424.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> > > Argh. Consider sending unified diffs, I think others prefer them too.
> > > When I see context diffs, I usually end up converting it to unified...
> >
> > OK. On emacs-devel, RMS asks for context diffs but I guess it's the
> > maintainer's prerogative to choose.
>
> Last time this discussion came up, someone introduced "diff -up",
> which combines the best-liked features of both.
Huh? Doesn't the "u" in "diff -up" stand for unified - not exactly the
buddhist "middle way". The option "p" shows the function name and is useful
with both unified and context diffs.
Anyway, I'm happy to post unified diffs since the maintainer needs to
understand them while I, hopefully, already do. I only really look at them to
check I've not included garbage.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-04 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 8:38 Nick Roberts
2008-04-29 7:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-04-29 14:29 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-01 18:07 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-02 1:05 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-02 5:19 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-02 22:29 ` Michael Snyder
2008-05-04 8:34 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
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