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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/sparc] Add handling of stack-check probes
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <umz1w8ytx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070328225013.GN3866@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker 	on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:50:13 -0700)

> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:50:13 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> PS: Do other people think that it is simpler for the human brain to understand
>         if (pc >= current_pc)
>     than 
>         if (current_pc <= pc)
> 
>     In other words, the boundary value is put on the rhs of the condition,
>     and the variable value is put on the lhs... It's just an aesthetic
>     consideration, but I can change it if others agree.

I prefer the variable to be on the left and the boundary on the right.

The only case where it is justified to reverse the order is when you
use ==, to avoid the frequent typo that uses only one `='.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-28 22:49 Joel Brobecker
2007-03-29  4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-04-10 15:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-11  7:11   ` Joel Brobecker

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