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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] introduce parallel mode
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zjszyjbv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo5fdho0.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:19:43 -0600
> 
> Eli> Looks like it's a matter of taste in this case.
> 
> If you really think @itemize is preferred here, I will comply.

I don't think it's preferred.  I think both forms are about the same
in this case.

> I'd like to understand your rationale, though.
> If I were writing this from scratch I would not have even considered
> @itemize, but rather @table.  I'd like to know when I ought to use
> @itemize in this scenario instead.

@itemize is a way to enumerate things.  Which is what this text does.

@table is more suitable to a list of values of a single variable, or a
list of alternatives.  Which is also what this text is about.


      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-02 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-02 15:36 [PATCH v2 0/4] introduce test suite "parallel" mode Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 15:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] more uses of standard_output_file Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 15:36 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] add caching procs to test suite Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 15:53   ` Pedro Alves
2013-08-02 16:48     ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 17:23       ` Pedro Alves
2013-08-02 20:15         ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 15:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] add standard_temp_file Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 15:36 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] introduce parallel mode Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 18:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-02 18:37     ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 18:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-02 18:48         ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 19:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-02 19:19             ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-02 19:38               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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