From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 31/31] Support an "unlimited" number of user-defined arguments
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26e622e9-f8bb-3ea5-87a3-cceb308664ea@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161019193927.09aebd85@ThinkPad>
On 10/19/2016 06:39 PM, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> I also needed a way to convert a number to a std::string, so I added a
>>>> new utility for that, gdb::to_string. Yet another thing that can go
>>>> away with C++11.
>>> [... snip ...]
>>>> +/* Returns a string representation of VAL. Replacement for
>>>> + std::to_string, which is only available in C++11 or later. */
>>> Is this really necessary?
>>> As far as I understood the discussion, we jump directly to C++11. Thus there is no need for an homemade to_string.
>>
>> We haven't actually officially committed to requiring
>> C++11, so I didn't want to be blocked by that. It's
>> trivial to remove that bit latter if this lands first.
>
> True that C++11 is not official yet. But the "trivial to remove" is
> exactly the reason I wrote, as those pieces of code tend to stay in the longest.
> And in 10+ years nobody knows why there is such a messy mix of different
> functions doing the same thing and why it hasn't been done right in the
> first place ;)
Well, in this case the comment leaves no doubt. :-)
>
> So my mail should not push you to use std::to_string but be seen as a reminder,
> that if we require C++11 your home made function should be deleted better sooner
> than later.
Agreed. If this lands first, I'll make sure to remove this piece
after C++11.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-19 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-19 1:13 [PATCH v2 00/31] More cleanup elimination & unlimited args to user-defined funcs Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 12/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/utils.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 20/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/cli/cli-setshow.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 06/31] Introduce ui_file_as_string Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 24/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/ada-lang.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 07/31] Clean up tracepoint.h/c:collection_list Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 22/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/c-exp.y Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 21/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/compile/ Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 23:08 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 23:48 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 3:17 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 01/31] Introduce string_printf Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 13:43 ` Trevor Saunders
2016-10-19 14:41 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 17:18 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 21:02 ` Pedro Alves
2016-11-08 15:35 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 19/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/remote.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 23/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdbarch.sh/gdbarch.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 31/31] Support an "unlimited" number of user-defined arguments Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-19 11:33 ` Philipp Rudo
2016-10-19 12:47 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 17:40 ` Philipp Rudo
2016-10-19 17:45 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2016-11-08 15:41 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 15/31] Use ui_file_as_string in execute_command_to_string Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 14/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/guile/ Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 29/31] 'struct agent_expr *' -> unique_ptr<agent_expr> Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 23:19 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 23:58 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 08/31] Use ui_file_as_string in dwarf2_compute_name Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 26/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/rust-lang.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 02/31] cli/cli-script.c: Remove some dead NULL checks Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 17:24 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 21:18 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 03/31] breakpoint.c:commands_command_1 constification and cleanup Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 27/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/language.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:17 ` [PATCH v2 11/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/ui-out.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:17 ` [PATCH v2 10/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/ada-valprint.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:17 ` [PATCH v2 25/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/infrun.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:17 ` [PATCH v2 09/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/xtensa-tdep.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:18 ` [PATCH v2 05/31] 'struct expression *' -> gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<expression> Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 18:45 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 21:50 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 22:25 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 22:36 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:18 ` [PATCH v2 30/31] Eliminate agent_expr_p; VEC -> std::vector in struct bp_target_info Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 04/31] cli-script.c: Simplify using std::string, eliminate cleanups Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 18:25 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 21:45 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:21 ` [PATCH v2 13/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/arm-tdep.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 22:54 ` Simon Marchi
2016-10-19 1:21 ` [PATCH v2 18/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/python/ Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:21 ` [PATCH v2 16/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/top.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 1:21 ` [PATCH v2 17/31] Use ui_file_as_string in gdb/printcmd.c Pedro Alves
2016-10-20 13:08 ` [PATCH v2 28/31] Use ui_file_as_string throughout more Pedro Alves
2017-02-23 10:23 ` Yao Qi
2017-02-23 10:53 ` Pedro Alves
2017-02-23 10:35 ` Yao Qi
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