From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Ignore two more files for copyright.sh
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wt3vzsiq.fsf@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uzm8rhm3c.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:27:51 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:38:11 -0500
>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>>
>> Pie on my face. I knew this would happen... I suppose I'm impressed
>> there was only one test depending on exact line numbering.
>
> Btw, it's possible to have the copyright notice at the end of the
> file, if we say at the beginning something like "Copyright notice at
> the end of the file". That way, the "operational" parts of the file
> will never change their line numbers, while your script will find the
> copyright if it's within the first 2KB of the file (and if that's not
> enough, we can enlarge this value by a one-line change to the
> gdb-copyright-update function in your script).
There are other facilities in lib/gdb.exp for writing tests so that
they don't depend on exact line numbers (see gdb_get_line_number).
This is a practice to avoid whenever possible, anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-09 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-09 21:38 Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-09 22:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-09 22:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-09 23:31 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2007-01-09 23:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-09 23:58 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-10 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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