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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>,
	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org ml" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Emit a warning for ineffective set VAR = EXP command
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 19:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120507193824.GW15555@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EFDD29C9-79FB-468E-B29B-C1783123E41D@adacore.com>

> > This warns about "set variable $j++" presumably -- should the warning be 
> > disabled for pre/post increments/decrements?
> 
> I am not opposed to disable warnings for pre/post inc/dec.
> But this usage is dubious (the help explicitly mentions VAR=EXP !)
> 
> Opinion ?

I think we should avoid the warning for pre/post inc/dec. This
type of expression might be a little outside the method proposed
in our documentation, but I think it's still a perfectly valid
expression that results in an assignment being performed.

-- 
Joel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-27 13:48 Tristan Gingold
2012-04-27 13:54 ` Pierre Muller
2012-04-27 16:09 ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-02 13:17   ` Tristan Gingold
2012-05-02 16:41     ` Doug Evans
2012-05-03 10:00       ` Tristan Gingold
2012-05-03 13:12         ` Doug Evans
2012-05-03 15:05           ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-03 16:33             ` Doug Evans
2012-05-03 22:04               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-03 22:07                 ` Doug Evans
2012-05-04  7:59               ` Tristan Gingold
2012-05-03 15:02         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-03 15:04           ` Tristan Gingold
2012-05-04 19:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-07 10:30   ` Tristan Gingold
2012-05-07 19:36     ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-07 19:40       ` Paul_Koning
2012-05-07 20:38         ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-07 19:38     ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-05-09 12:29       ` Tristan Gingold
2012-05-09 13:54         ` Paul_Koning
2012-05-09 14:10           ` Tristan Gingold
2012-05-09 14:12           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-09 14:58             ` Paul_Koning
2012-05-09 15:38               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-05-09 15:55                 ` Paul_Koning
2012-05-09 14:17         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-10 14:11           ` Tristan Gingold
2012-05-08  6:06     ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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