From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Save the length of inserted breakpoints
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uejzwznlk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604162358.k3GNwJPx032646@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (message from Mark Kettenis on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:58:19 +0200 (CEST))
> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:58:19 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > > And it obfuscates the interface.
> >
> > I can't believe you really think that passing a struct instead of its
> > several members obfuscates the interface in any significant way; GDB's
> > code is replete with instances of passing a struct of which the caller
> > uses only a small part.
> >
> > I understand that you want to make a point, but let's not exaggerate
> > our arguments to such a ridiculous degree.
>
> If we don't try to make are interfaces as clean and simple as
> possible, GDB will get more difficult to maintain.
We do try to make our interfaces clean, it just happens that in this
case your notion of cleanness is very different from that of others.
In any case, ``unclean'' and ``obfuscated'' are two very different
things. Which one is it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-17 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 22:25 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-02 23:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-03-02 23:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-03 0:08 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-03-03 1:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-03 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-03 15:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-03 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-03 18:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-03 22:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-03 22:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-03 22:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-03 23:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-04 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-04 14:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-04 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-04 15:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-06 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-07 5:31 ` Michael Snyder
2006-03-04 0:35 ` Steven Johnson
2006-03-04 10:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-11 21:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-11 22:32 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-12 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-12 9:44 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-12 12:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-12 18:38 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-12 18:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-13 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-13 22:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-13 22:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-13 23:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-14 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 8:52 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-14 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 8:51 ` David S. Miller
2006-04-16 23:58 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-17 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-04-13 21:57 ` Michael Snyder
2006-04-13 22:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-16 23:53 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-16 23:50 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-17 1:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-17 13:09 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-17 13:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-17 13:50 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-17 19:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-17 20:25 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-17 21:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-18 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-18 19:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-19 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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