From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31545 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2003 04:36:38 -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 31537 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2003 04:36:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.home) (12.223.225.216) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 2003 04:36:37 -0000 Received: by zenia.home (Postfix, from userid 5433) id 51B2520766; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:32:50 -0500 (EST) To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Jim Ingham , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: complete command doesn't work for files... References: <20030924232504.GL1020@gnat.com> <3F7228FE.7040908@redhat.com> <1A6E465C-EF8B-11D7-BEC8-00039379E320@apple.com> <3F7344EF.30407@redhat.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 04:36:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3F7344EF.30407@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00597.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: > why apparently simpler alternative techniques don't work. Right --- this is an example of a boundary case, where a comment that helps one understand the justification for the present code resembles a historical comment, that would belong in a ChangeLog.