Re: [PATCH] gdb: update store_integer's comment

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 5/4/26 3:16 AM, Markus Metzger wrote:
> From: Tankut Baris Aktemur <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com>
> 
> The comment of store_integer seems slightly outdated and does not
> refer to the variants that take an array view.  Update the comment.
> ---
>  gdb/extract-store-integer.c | 4 ++--
>  gdb/extract-store-integer.h | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/extract-store-integer.c b/gdb/extract-store-integer.c
> index a7bce99362d..66ddae33aa8 100644
> --- a/gdb/extract-store-integer.c
> +++ b/gdb/extract-store-integer.c
> @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ extract_typed_address (const gdb_byte *buf, struct type *type)
>    return gdbarch_pointer_to_address (type->arch (), type, buf);
>  }
>  
> -/* All 'store' functions accept a host-format integer and store a
> -   target-format integer at ADDR which is LEN bytes long.  */
> +/* Take a host-format integer VAL and store it as a target-format
> +   integer at DST.  */
>  template<typename T, typename>
>  void
>  store_integer (gdb::array_view<gdb_byte> dst, enum bfd_endian byte_order,

This one should be "See extract-store-integer.h.", since we have a
declaration for this in the header.

> diff --git a/gdb/extract-store-integer.h b/gdb/extract-store-integer.h
> index 76dfd49d62a..16a6a852bf7 100644
> --- a/gdb/extract-store-integer.h
> +++ b/gdb/extract-store-integer.h
> @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ extern CORE_ADDR extract_typed_address (const gdb_byte *buf,
>  					struct type *type);
>  
>  /* All 'store' functions accept a host-format integer and store a
> -   target-format integer at ADDR which is LEN bytes long.  */
> +   target-format integer, either at DST, which contains its size,
> +   or at ADDR, which is LEN bytes long.  */

Since it's a short and simple comment, my preference would be to put a
specific comment on all the variants.  This makes the comments more
useful, especially when you hover over a function call in an IDE.

Simon