From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25848 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2006 05:53:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 25839 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Feb 2006 05:53:16 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.203) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:53:15 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so70487nzd for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.251.8 with SMTP id y8mr6651485nzh; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.63 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:53:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0601312153s72d75a48ha6bc2fe75050d4fc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:53:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: Mark Kettenis Subject: Re: [RFC] Clean up var_integer/var_uinteger/var_zinteger mess Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <200601311131.k0VBVjf8022306@jop31.nfra.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200601311131.k0VBVjf8022306@jop31.nfra.nl> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 It seems to me there ought to be something like var_limit, which would accept non-negative numbers or the word "unlimited", and store the result as an unsigned integer, with UINT_MAX meaning "unlimited".