From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
Jason Molenda <jason-swarelist@molenda.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add type_sprint() function to return type in string form
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030422202223.GA6466@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EA5A31A.5060504@redhat.com>
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 04:16:26PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> >>Sure, but the interface would sux.
> >
> >
> >Then what would you prefer? I have a really negative gut reaction to
> >putting dup in the name; it's not duplicating anything.
> >type_as_string?
>
> It is making an xmalloc'ed string duplicate of the type.
A duplicate is the same as the original.
A string is not the same as a type.
> Jason, your choice:
>
> type_xasprint (char **buf, ...)
>
> or
>
> char *type_xstrdup (....);
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-22 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-18 22:24 Jason Molenda
2003-04-22 3:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-04-22 16:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-04-22 16:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-04-22 17:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-04-22 17:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-04-22 19:21 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-04-22 19:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-04-22 20:16 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-04-22 20:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-04-22 20:35 ` Jason Molenda
2003-04-22 21:15 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-04-22 19:55 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-04-23 14:23 ` Jason Molenda
2003-04-23 17:37 ` Andrew Cagney
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