From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5801 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2011 18:48:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 5793 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Feb 2011 18:48:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:48:35 +0000 Received: (qmail 10681 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2011 18:48:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scottsdale.localnet) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 22 Feb 2011 18:48:33 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [commit] fix for "info threads" printing multiple headers Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:49:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-25-generic; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Michael Snyder , Tom Tromey References: <4D62F7D6.8040705@vmware.com> <4D64022A.9090405@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <4D64022A.9090405@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102221848.26003.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-02/txt/msg00618.txt.bz2 On Tuesday 22 February 2011 18:36:26, Michael Snyder wrote: > Seems like it would only be useful if the function had to be thread safe. No, it's useful when something like this happens: get_number_or_range("1-10", ...); ... (in_range is left set) ... QUIT or something like that that breaks the loop. (new command invocation, with different arg, which happens to be malformed, for being negative) get_number_or_range("-1", ...); Returns 2 instead of throwing an error, which would be the correct thing to do. -- Pedro Alves