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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>, Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Redefine skip_quoted
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vt2fzv6sv3q.fsf@zenia.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95706CBA-DFBC-11D6-A1B6-00039396EEB8@apple.com>


Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com> writes:
> In the Apple code, we use skip_quoted to allow for the possibility of
> spaces in Objective-C function names.
> 
> I'm actually coming to think that allowing people to break on unquoted
> Objective-C methods was a mistake: it's caused us no end of trouble
> trying to shoehorn decode_line_1() into handling every possible
> edge-case.  I'm not sure how practical it is for us to remove it at
> this point, though --- we'd have to do some research among our
> Objective-C developers to find out how important a feature it is to
> them, I think.

So, the original patch posted is preparation for a behavior which you
now suspect was a mistake, and which has caused you no end of trouble?
(Or do I have the sense of what you were saying reversed?)  You can
forgive me if hearing that makes me a bit hesitant to approve the
patch, right?  :)


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-16  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-04 19:53 Adam Fedor
2002-10-08 16:22 ` Michael Snyder
2002-10-14 13:47   ` Jim Blandy
2002-10-14 14:30     ` Michael Snyder
2002-10-14 14:33     ` Klee Dienes
2002-10-16  0:44       ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2002-10-16  3:29         ` [PATCH] minor nit in read_tilde_fields Klee Dienes
2002-10-16  6:54           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-10-17 23:33         ` [PATCH] Redefine skip_quoted Adam Fedor
2002-10-18 14:52           ` Elena Zannoni
2002-10-18 15:54             ` Adam Fedor
2002-10-22  8:04               ` Elena Zannoni
2002-10-25 12:43                 ` Adam Fedor
2002-11-03 16:20                   ` Elena Zannoni
2002-11-03 18:54                     ` GDB ObjC plan (was: Re: [PATCH] Redefine skip_quoted) Adam Fedor
2002-11-07 12:36               ` [PATCH] Redefine skip_quoted Jim Blandy
2002-10-14 16:17 Adam Fedor

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