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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>,
	Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] gdbsupport: Provide global operators |=, &=, and ^= for enum bit flags
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:49:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89e07f2d-9c33-5f43-d62f-19571ac39c57@palves.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200817104034.GJ853475@embecosm.com>

On 8/17/20 11:40 AM, Andrew Burgess wrote:

> 
>  3. Instead of writing 'enum some_flag', a developer might just write
>  'some_flag'.  

I suspect you meant 'some_flags' in the latter case.

> In this case they still require the changes from my
>  patch if they ever want to use operator|=.  I think spotting the
>  missing 's' is much harder during review, 

I'd argue that that's an issue of naming.  If people thing it's a
problem, we can use a more distinct name for the raw enums.
Some cases use enum foo_flag_value / foo_flags, which seems reasonable
to me.

> so it's easy for uses of
>  'some_flag' to creep into the code base, then a future developer
>  wanting to use 'operator|=' will need to fix up the 'some_flag' to
>  'some_flags' miss-match.  Though it's easy to argue that the first
>  developer made a mistake, and we frequently have to fix the mistakes
>  of those going before, in this case we don't have to, so why force
>  the matter?
> 
> I guess my argument would be, lets commit.  We should either remove
> the existing global operators from enum-flags.h, fix up the fall out,
> and so make it much harder to developers to use the 'some_flag'
> version (so forcing the use of 'some_flags'), or make the change I
> propose which allows the full range of operators while loosing non of
> the protection that already exists.

This (again) reminded me of my enum-flags.h rewrite that I never
managed to commit...

I spent time around it yesterday/today, and posted it here:
 https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-August/171392.html

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-13 12:58 [PATCH 0/8] Fortran Array Slicing and Striding Support Andrew Burgess
2020-08-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 1/8] gdbsupport: Provide global operators |=, &=, and ^= for enum bit flags Andrew Burgess
2020-08-15 17:16   ` Tom Tromey
2020-08-16  9:13     ` Andrew Burgess
2020-08-17 10:40     ` Andrew Burgess
2020-08-20 16:00       ` Pedro Alves
2020-08-21 14:49       ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2020-08-21 15:57         ` Andrew Burgess
2020-08-21 18:10           ` Pedro Alves
2020-08-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 2/8] gdbsupport: Make function arguments constant in enum-flags.h Andrew Burgess
2020-08-15 19:45   ` Tom Tromey
2020-08-16  9:08     ` Andrew Burgess
2020-08-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 3/8] gdb/fortran: Clean up array/string expression evaluation Andrew Burgess
2020-08-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 4/8] gdb/fortran: Move Fortran expression handling into f-lang.c Andrew Burgess
2020-08-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 5/8] gdb/fortran: Change whitespace when printing arrays Andrew Burgess
2020-08-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 6/8] gdb: Convert enum range_type to a bit field enum Andrew Burgess
2020-08-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 7/8] gdb/testsuite: Add missing expected results Andrew Burgess
2020-08-13 12:58 ` [PATCH 8/8] gdb/fortran: Add support for Fortran array slices at the GDB prompt Andrew Burgess
2020-08-13 13:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-26 14:49 ` [PATCHv2 00/10] Fortran Array Slicing and Striding Support Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 01/10] Rewrite valid-expr.h's internals in terms of the detection idiom (C++17/N4502) Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 02/10] Use type_instance_flags more throughout Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 03/10] Rewrite enum_flags, add unit tests, fix problems Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 04/10] gdb: additional changes to make use of type_instance_flags more Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 05/10] gdb/fortran: Clean up array/string expression evaluation Andrew Burgess
2020-09-19  8:53     ` Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 06/10] gdb/fortran: Move Fortran expression handling into f-lang.c Andrew Burgess
2020-09-19  8:53     ` Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 07/10] gdb/fortran: Change whitespace when printing arrays Andrew Burgess
2020-09-19  8:54     ` Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 08/10] gdb: Convert enum range_type to a bit field enum Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 09/10] gdb/testsuite: Add missing expected results Andrew Burgess
2020-09-18  9:53     ` Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 14:49   ` [PATCHv2 10/10] gdb/fortran: Add support for Fortran array slices at the GDB prompt Andrew Burgess
2020-08-26 17:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-19  9:47   ` [PATCHv3 0/2] Fortran Array Slicing and Striding Support Andrew Burgess
2020-09-19  9:48     ` [PATCHv3 1/2] gdb: Convert enum range_type to a bit field enum Andrew Burgess
2020-09-19 13:50       ` Simon Marchi
2020-09-19  9:48     ` [PATCHv3 2/2] gdb/fortran: Add support for Fortran array slices at the GDB prompt Andrew Burgess
2020-09-19 10:03       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28  9:40     ` [PATCHv4 0/3] Fortran Array Slicing and Striding Support Andrew Burgess
2020-09-28  9:40       ` [PATCHv4 1/3] gdb: Convert enum range_type to a bit field enum Andrew Burgess
2020-09-28  9:40       ` [PATCHv4 2/3] gdb: rename 'enum range_type' to 'enum range_flag' Andrew Burgess
2020-09-28  9:40       ` [PATCHv4 3/3] gdb/fortran: Add support for Fortran array slices at the GDB prompt Andrew Burgess
2020-09-28  9:52         ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-10-11 18:12       ` [PATCHv5 0/4] Fortran Array Slicing and Striding Support Andrew Burgess
2020-10-11 18:12         ` [PATCHv5 1/4] gdb: Convert enum range_type to a bit field enum Andrew Burgess
2020-10-20 20:16           ` Tom Tromey
2020-10-11 18:12         ` [PATCHv5 2/4] gdb: rename 'enum range_type' to 'enum range_flag' Andrew Burgess
2020-10-20 20:16           ` Tom Tromey
2020-10-11 18:12         ` [PATCHv5 3/4] gdb/fortran: add support for parsing array strides in expressions Andrew Burgess
2020-10-12 13:21           ` Simon Marchi
2020-10-20 20:17           ` Tom Tromey
2020-10-22 10:42           ` Andrew Burgess
2020-10-11 18:12         ` [PATCHv5 4/4] gdb/fortran: Add support for Fortran array slices at the GDB prompt Andrew Burgess
2020-10-12 14:10           ` Simon Marchi
2020-10-20 20:45           ` Tom Tromey
2020-10-29 11:08             ` Andrew Burgess
2020-10-31 22:16           ` [PATCHv6] " Andrew Burgess
2020-11-12 12:09             ` Andrew Burgess
2020-11-12 18:58             ` Tom Tromey
2020-11-19 11:56             ` Andrew Burgess

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