From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Clean up var_integer/var_uinteger/var_zinteger mess
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f2776cb0602011049u2479c5e5n7dec732b59927573@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602011612.k11GCTK1017502@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
On 2/1/06, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Actually, it'd make sense if the existing
> var_integer/var_uinteger/var_zinteger would accept "unlimited".
> That'd make your var_limit unnecessary.
>
> Does anyone see any problems with that?
Well, I presume that sometimes (often) those are used for limits of
something, and sometimes they're genuine integers. Surely there's
something in GDB where a negative value would make sense. I don't
like the idea of accepting "unlimited" for a quantity that isn't a
limit on anything.
Then, of course, there's aix-thread.c which is using zinteger for a boolean.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-01 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-31 11:32 Mark Kettenis
2006-02-01 5:53 ` Jim Blandy
2006-02-01 16:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-02-01 18:49 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2006-02-01 19:24 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-02-01 19:28 ` Jim Blandy
2006-02-01 21:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-02 0:11 ` Joel Brobecker
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