From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
brobecker@adacore.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New annotation for threads
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 19:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <482EDC14.2030506@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18478.48682.13900.951343@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
Nick Roberts wrote:
> > Thanks, but please add a corresponding bit to the user manual. The
> > existing annotations are described there.
>
> I plan to represent this patch with a test shortly. Documenting a feature
> helps and encourages it's use. For this reason, and because annotations is
> deprecated, I was intending not to document it. Why do you think it should be
> documented?
>
If it's in the code and expected to be maintained, then it should be
documented. How many times on this list have people been scratching
their heads trying to figure out what an undocumented bit of code was
supposed to do? These "deprecated" things seem to have a way of lasting
longer than anyone's memories. :-)
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-17 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-18 16:06 Nick Roberts
2008-04-29 4:47 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-04-29 14:19 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-01 18:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-01 18:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-05-01 23:31 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-01 23:37 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-02 0:07 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-02 5:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-02 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-17 15:51 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-17 19:15 ` Stan Shebs [this message]
2008-05-17 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-18 3:20 ` Bob Rossi
2008-05-18 9:11 ` Bob Rossi
2008-05-18 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-19 8:48 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-19 9:09 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-19 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-19 12:39 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-19 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-20 15:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-20 16:10 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-20 16:43 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-20 18:09 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-21 3:55 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-21 7:22 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-20 22:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-20 22:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-21 3:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-21 9:33 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-05-21 15:11 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-21 15:14 ` Joel Brobecker
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