From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31686 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2013 21:11:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 31669 invoked by uid 89); 25 Sep 2013 21:11:29 -0000 Received: from mail-ie0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-ie0-f174.google.com) (209.85.223.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:11:29 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS,SPAM_SUBJECT autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ie0-f174.google.com Received: by mail-ie0-f174.google.com with SMTP id u16so306816iet.19 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:11:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=hj+wOYwENDaqHS3PrLSgX75S3xJF7ExbNHlXcnmbZA4=; b=FZJprKh2ZSITB81MCmNLyjjsETrwFEQ2NeToeGwclg+6OhSKaTGqrsfntP0XvdoBkx vD/oH5bTUYIrr/+Vsi7r8jQS/y2TcG3dnVPAGeWj6W5Q4Cc0ggsNptNFgGwv1ZUcmQ8C MI0J+YGrEEiZAr4vdxtE+D+tsZmnYQewvT0O+lzsAnE6sQ9HSCtuKD+cjC3JcyinPOFg CG6qBUuFcVPGIOb0qw/coxUd6gH+QGeEqU2GDV1RJpZj14lpCs5P12eCsWV/dAW96qpR 3S2yGoO/MKIT8H6Egh+Aoklk8tAZo5eOPGYrrv+ruaaYTrnm6mFiZlJK5FgBM/8mt1Oj Hd5Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkavjE0upcLryCO2pSllsJlhNtBawhoeLjAHrgxzsJKjL909Z+xw/ENKbovx/17QytKjusIDaEWajdlzeDrD+27ySqu4SyLWyJTqSXc1N3ZhpPBwoDHZxR5HmLuQFakzyKwOvFDjkIyy2p7y5N9SQYEX45sfVCZAZyU0qdtuAoruRDjS++aZ/brMh23BW4SC3sFMbRq/SAtta1d1EubooBl348BCg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.89.134 with SMTP id g6mr30875326icm.8.1380143487049; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.31.100 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:11:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bo3girue.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <87hadbmfsr.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87ob7giwgd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87bo3girue.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFA] fix ref counting of inferior_to_inferior_object From: Doug Evans To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00908.txt.bz2 On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: > Doug> Not that you disagree or anything, but IWBN to remove whim from > Doug> the equation. Consistency Is Good, and all that. > > I'm not so sure. I think consistency is one good among many, and there > is a cost to enforcing these sorts of rules. There's (in general) less cost in enforcing fewer rules. > This is particularly true if the code is already not consistent. Unless > maybe you are volunteering to change it all. I *will* volunteer to set a direction that we can all type in. :-)