From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22756 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2003 03:44:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22749 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 03:44:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2003 03:44:53 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (Debian)) id 1AS6tf-0003bf-Rz; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:44:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 03:44:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "J. Johnston" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC]: pending break support Message-ID: <20031205034451.GA13705@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "J. Johnston" , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3FCD3DC5.8000308@redhat.com> <3405-Wed03Dec2003180427+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <3FCE3DA9.2000603@redhat.com> <3FCF6724.5050109@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FCF6724.5050109@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00189.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:56:04AM -0500, J. Johnston wrote: > > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >>Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:46:49 -0500 > >>From: "J. Johnston" > >>+Normal breakpoint operations apply to pending breakpoints as well. You > >>may +specify, a condition for a pending breakpoint, commands to run when > >>the > > > > ^ > >The comma I marked should not be there, I think. > > > > I put the comma because you can specify a condition and you can specify > commands. Without it, the next part of the sentence doesn't make sense. I > didn't want to reuse specify as that made the sentence feel redundant. I > think maybe the best idea would be to use "or" instead of the commas. > > How about: > > Normal breakpoint operations apply to pending breakpoints as well. You may > specify a condition for a pending breakpoint and/or commands to run when > the breakpoint is reached. You can also enable or disable the pending > breakpoint. > ... Normally English doesn't go in for commas before lists. But your rewrite reads well to me. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer