From: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: STOPPED_BY_WATCHPOINT peculiarity
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 08:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15533.54485.208671.923492@casey.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6137-Fri05Apr2002141806+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:54:47 -0800
> > From: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
> >
> > /* It may be possible to simply continue after a watchpoint. */
> > if (HAVE_CONTINUABLE_WATCHPOINT)
> > STOPPED_BY_WATCHPOINT (ecs->ws);
> >
> > STOPPED_BY_WATCHPOINT is a predicate.
> > Therefore at first glance this code is pointless.
>
> Who said predicates cannot have side effects?
They can, but given the choice they don't.
It's poor programming practice.
[pedantic: setting aside predicates that do result caching and the like]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-05 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-02 13:55 Doug Evans
2002-04-02 14:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-02 14:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-11 14:15 ` Michael Snyder
2002-04-05 3:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-05 8:46 ` Doug Evans [this message]
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