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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>,
	       gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Constify find_condition_and_thread
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc9aud7p.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5130F9BB.6020002@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Fri, 01	Mar 2013 18:55:55 +0000")

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> An alternative would be to perhaps make the interface of
Pedro> parse_exp_1 similar to strtol -- split input and output
Pedro> pointers, with the explicit guarantee that the output pointer
Pedro> points somewhere within the input string.  Is it really that
Pedro> messy?  There doesn't seem to be many parse_exp_1 callers.

I think the problem is that the parsers probably do modify the input
string.  So, you couldn't pass in a readonly string.

E.g., see c-exp.y:parse_number.  It modifies the string, but then
modifies it back.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-01 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-01 18:18 Keith Seitz
2013-03-01 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-01 18:56   ` Pedro Alves
2013-03-01 19:33     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-03-02  7:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-01 18:56 ` Pedro Alves

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