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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com>,
		"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH [0/2] Convert unavailable vector to be bit, not byte, based.
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22Q0Yuy4SYPXsXf3Cnh6+ZF9BBomEW2MG4_hT=UiWrYmYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A0A733.3050001@redhat.com>

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/04/2013 03:22 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>> This patch set is inspired by two previous patches I've posted:
>>
>>   https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-08/msg00305.html
>>   https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-08/msg00309.html
>>
>> but I think can exist as a separate piece of work.
>
> Excellent!  The new test is quite nice work.
>
>> The vector of unavailable parts of a value is currently byte based.
>> Given that we can model a value down to the bit level, we can
>> potentially loose information with the current implementation.  After
>> the patch we model the unavailable information in bits.
>
> It'd be good if this paragraph ended up in the commit log of patch 2.

I'd prefer a comment in the code too fwiw.
[and then if one still wants to add a comment to the commit log, go for it]
A simple one-liner explaining why things are the way they are would be
sufficient.


      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-05 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-04 15:22 Andrew Burgess
2013-12-04 15:25 ` [PATCH [1/2] Add support for DW_OP_bit_piece and DW_OP_plus_uconst to DWARF assembler Andrew Burgess
2013-12-05 16:23   ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-05 18:53     ` Tom Tromey
2013-12-06 13:30       ` Andrew Burgess
2013-12-04 15:26 ` [PATCH [0/2] Convert the unavailable vector to be bit, not byte, based Andrew Burgess
2013-12-05 16:18   ` [PATCH [2/2] " Pedro Alves
2013-12-09 21:04     ` Andrew Burgess
2013-12-10 11:32       ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-11 16:28   ` Andrew Burgess
2013-12-11 18:45     ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-17 17:30       ` Andrew Burgess
2013-12-05 16:18 ` PATCH [0/2] Convert " Pedro Alves
2013-12-05 18:14   ` Doug Evans [this message]

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