From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5832 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2002 07:44:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5822 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2002 07:43:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.red-bean.com) (66.244.67.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Oct 2002 07:43:59 -0000 Received: (from jimb@localhost) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9G7Q2k28947; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:26:02 -0500 To: Klee Dienes Cc: Michael Snyder , Adam Fedor , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Redefine skip_quoted References: <95706CBA-DFBC-11D6-A1B6-00039396EEB8@apple.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:44:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <95706CBA-DFBC-11D6-A1B6-00039396EEB8@apple.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.90 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00277.txt.bz2 Klee Dienes 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? :)