From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26037 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2019 17:02:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 26021 invoked by uid 89); 21 Mar 2019 17:02:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Languages-Length:411 X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (209.51.188.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:02:24 +0000 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7159-0001Qd-2E; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:02:19 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1524 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7158-0002yp-HI; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:02:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:02:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83zhpotb38.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Pedro Alves CC: simark@simark.ca, tom@tromey.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Pedro Alves on Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:12:26 +0000) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Add styling to the gdb CLI and TUI References: <20181128001435.12703-1-tom@tromey.com> <83k1kxfzwo.fsf@gnu.org> <8736rja4i8.fsf@tromey.com> <83r2brhw8k.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8cmh1wg.fsf@tromey.com> <83va12gz8j.fsf@gnu.org> <87mumeb935.fsf@tromey.com> <83d0n8eyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0n6adk2.fsf@tromey.com> <83imwyee29.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0n67d29.fsf@tromey.com> <83imwwc7pj.fsf@gnu.org> <57558f60-8254-931f-846b-bdd6b60f5798@simark.ca> <838sx8uwbb.fsf@gnu.org> <834l7wushq.fsf@gnu.org> <0f1760b45f024d45ceece8f0fe5c2686@simark.ca> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00463.txt.bz2 > Cc: tom@tromey.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org > From: Pedro Alves > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:12:26 +0000 > > Is there an advantage of a single variable that encodes the version, > compared to separate major/minor variables? Just that it makes comparison simpler, and IME less error-prone. Not a very important argument, admittedly.