From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14784 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2009 05:11:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 14774 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Dec 2009 05:11:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:11:50 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B192BABB0; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:11:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id pPy98y+OnCBg; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:11:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5243A2BABA6; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:11:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B6760F5937; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:11:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:11:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Thiago Jung Bauermann Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tyrlik@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support the new PPC476 processor -- Arch Independent Message-ID: <20091230051120.GC2788@adacore.com> References: <200912161847.19433.sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <83vdg45xkx.fsf@gnu.org> <200912292359.32931.bauerman@br.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200912292359.32931.bauerman@br.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-12/txt/msg00428.txt.bz2 > error (_("\ > Provided range can't be watched. Either the target watchpoint resources\n\ > don't support it, or hardware watchpoints are disabled in GDB\n\ > (see \"set can-use-hw-watchpoints\").")); This is total nit-picking, but I suggest that we avoid the use of contractions in error messages. I think this is too casual. "can't" -> "cannot" "don't" -> "do not" > Here we are just imitating the behaviour (and error message) of the find > command. Since the syntax is the same, we thought that it'd be confusing > if GDB behaved differently in different commands with the same syntax. I agree with that (consistency). I don't think I'd be fustrated at GDB if I inserted the addresses in the wrong order and GDB errored out. -- Joel