From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,
"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] comment looks wrong...
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEDD14C.4080505@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091028200435.GA13464@caradoc.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:23:11PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
>> The comment in findvar about extract_*_integer looked wrong to me,
>> with respect to target vs. host. If I'm right, this is an improvement,
>> but if I'm confused, then so are these comments. ;-/
>
> It's some subject/object fuzziness, I think.
>
>> -/* Basic byte-swapping routines. GDB has needed these for a long time...
>> - All extract a target-format integer at ADDR which is LEN bytes long. */
>> +/* Basic byte-swapping routines. GDB has needed these for a long
>> + time... All 'extract' functions extract a host-format integer at
>> + ADDR which is LEN bytes long. */
>
> Which do you extract - the value being read or the value being
> returned? It means the value being read, which is in target format.
>
Does that mean you don't favor changing it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-01 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-28 19:31 Michael Snyder
2009-10-28 20:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-01 18:28 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2009-11-01 19:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-01 20:37 ` Michael Snyder
2009-11-02 0:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-11-11 19:27 ` Michael Snyder
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