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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Pouget <kevin.pouget@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Code cleanup - split print_stop_reason / question
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110427130021.GA7103@host1.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin70pF0swcBvPZ3ftSmbrrccOUzcw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:27:38 +0200, Kevin Pouget wrote:
> I had a little question regarding Jan's patch below,
> do you remember why you print the `exitstatus' in octal?

This is not from me.  When you check the history (I use git annotate file,
git annotate file REVISION^, git annotate file PREVREVISION^ and so on) you
will find that line of code comes from:

commit 14558c99c9b3adcfd7ab7934392a7b958337a015
Author: Jason Molenda <jsm@bugshack.cygnus.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 3 04:14:45 2000 +0000

    import gdb-2000-02-02 snapshot

So there is no further history and the line's original author is unknown.

AFAIK there was a tradition in UNIX to deal with program exit codes in octal.
I do not know why.


Thanks,
Jan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-27 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <BANLkTin70pF0swcBvPZ3ftSmbrrccOUzcw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-27 11:34 ` Kevin Pouget
2011-04-27 13:01 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2011-04-27 13:17   ` Kevin Pouget

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