Re: [PATCH] -stack-info-frames

Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-20T03:43:58Z

> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:24:19 +1200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> Contributing to Emacs works differently.

Yep.

> > "No arguments required" doesn't make much sense as an error message; it
> > suggests that no arguments are necessary, but not that any arguments
> > are invalid. But I see there are two uses of it already, and none of
> > any other format for functions which take no arguements. So the code
> > parts of the patch are belatedly OK...
>
> Where possible, I just copy what is already there.

That is not always a good idea. Sometimes it is better to modify old
code/docs, instead of proliferating past blunders in the name of
consistency.