From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: jimb@red-bean.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Clean up var_integer/var_uinteger/var_zinteger mess
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602011612.k11GCTK1017502@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0601312153s72d75a48ha6bc2fe75050d4fc@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jim Blandy on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:53:13 -0800)
> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:53:13 -0800
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
>
> It seems to me there ought to be something like var_limit, which would
> accept non-negative numbers or the word "unlimited", and store the
> result as an unsigned integer, with UINT_MAX meaning "unlimited".
Actually, it'd make sense if the existing
var_integer/var_uinteger/var_zinteger would accept "unlimited".
That'd make your var_limit unnecessary.
Does anyone see any problems with that?
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-01 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-31 11:32 Mark Kettenis
2006-02-01 5:53 ` Jim Blandy
2006-02-01 16:13 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2006-02-01 18:49 ` Jim Blandy
2006-02-01 19:24 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-02-01 19:28 ` Jim Blandy
2006-02-01 21:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-02 0:11 ` Joel Brobecker
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