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From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
To: cel@us.ibm.com (Carl E. Love)
Cc: arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com (Andreas Arnez),
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	       emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com (Edjunior Barbosa Machado),
	       Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com (Ulrich Weigand)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for gdb.server/non-existing-program.exp test case
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160913153701.960F411C2B7@oc8523832656.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473780307.4102.115.camel@us.ibm.com> from "Carl E. Love" at Sep 13, 2016 08:25:07 AM

Carl Love wrote:

> I fixed up the comment per your suggestion.  Not sure what happened with
> the formatting. See if this looks better.

> +  /* The last_status.kind was set by the call to ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, ...).
> +     The function linux_wait() has also been called.  At this point, the
> +     target process, if it exits, is stopped.  Do not call the function
> +     target_post_create_inferior if the process has already exited, as the
> +     target implementation of the routine may rely on the process being live.
> +  */

Formatting looks OK now, except that the trailing */ should not be on a
separate line; see other multi-line comments how those should look like.

However, the comment still mentions ptrace and linux_wait, which is also
only true on Linux targets.  I'd just leave that off.

Patch is OK with that change.

Bye,
Ulrich

-- 
  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU/Linux compilers and toolchain
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-13 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-07 15:08 Carl E. Love
2016-09-13 13:26 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-09-13 15:25   ` Carl E. Love
2016-09-13 15:37     ` Ulrich Weigand [this message]
2016-09-13 17:10       ` Carl E. Love

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