From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 37564 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2016 23:55:07 -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 37542 invoked by uid 89); 3 Nov 2016 23:55:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mail-wm0-f44.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f44.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f44.google.com) (74.125.82.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:54:56 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f44.google.com with SMTP id t79so18335436wmt.0 for ; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:54:56 -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:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=M+/QktluUwujrIvNV08TO98p30gtNLLhsmrOrKOG/No=; b=U5eaSlRIg6ipmPU08PLKFVygtm8bPzCztoW2LXPkRTOkoTDeDQfFYEljezNi4+79lF IB7rieJBx1vbAojdWQWnvOM0t9SLlm9a+2n2678fj/wuTUmH0LHetVLWfxCJX4R5vfWh 7So4NyygRNKkbXLBlmY1hyqmN1BdkPwxjy4cE+B2bt2ocByCHFQRsOEwMgwfUfoTqldo 7/Oalrc0FHvdE7zUZcfnjrREr+YbtgJ1qACaXYwKcmYOHpOFstfJhkMFZaK/yZYT8J/Z 5w4NvgZXUaQ1p3EITPiKmDDMXTP/96S+Zr6rkBfUvtxLUUakDv4lLt9iuHcW/Uoub24u LuAQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvfrZJP1NeO9/8ClVqSqzyTw83QeMllZ+YV3wokWT4cr+0RgEwr3WeqQDkkd557jNHwjjl1AeQQs46YSdwKi X-Received: by 10.28.31.23 with SMTP id f23mr440914wmf.94.1478217294405; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:54:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.28.152.70 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:54:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83y410l6wa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <94eb2c1121f421b06405406923b6@google.com> <83zilgl8zt.fsf@gnu.org> <83y410l6wa.fsf@gnu.org> From: Doug Evans Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH, doc RFA] Fix lazy string type docs To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Doug Evans >> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 11:30:39 -0700 >> Cc: gdb-patches >> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:46:28 +0000 >> > From: Doug Evans >> > >> > +Return the type of a character in @var{lazy-string}. >> >> Hmm... what is "type of a character" in this context? >> >> I have no comments to the markup or the text. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Consider char vs wchar_t. >> e.g., >> #include >> char foo[] = "bar"; >> wchar_t wide_foo[] = L"bar"; > > So maybe it would be more clear to say "the type of characters", > plural? And perhaps give an example or two of what types these could > be? Or how about "the type of an element in the string" ?