RE: [RFA] ARI fix: %p rule

Pierre Muller
2009-04-17T15:54:15Z

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
> owner@sourceware.org] De la part de Joel Brobecker
> Envoyé : Friday, April 17, 2009 5:37 PM
> À : Pedro Alves
> Cc : gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Pierre Muller
> Objet : Re: [RFA] ARI fix: %p rule
>
> > (I have a sekret itch that keeps telling me that
> > host_address_to_string is such a long name for this)
>
> It's a practice I inherited from my Ada days. I like clear names
> even if it they end up being a bit on the longish side. But I'm
> not opposed to making it shorter if you prefer (hostaddr2str
> for instance, or ptr2str).
In fact we have paddr for
a pointer in target space, so something like
haddr for host_address would be fine for me...

Pierre Muller
Pascal language support maintainer for GDB