Re: [rfc] plans for linespec.c

[David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:29:46 -0500, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> said:
> David Carlton writes:

>> So what makes sense for me to do is:

>> 1) Start doing some obvious patches that only do stuff like change
>> formatting, rename variables, etc.; unless Elena or somebody else
>> objects, I'll post these to gdb-patches but I won't wait for
>> approval, since they clearly won't change GDB's behavior.

> This is ok, as long as the patches are simple. I.e. better have more
> smaller patches, rather than a big one. But you know this already!

Great, I'll make sure to keep those patches small.

>> 2) Start submitting a series of patches to break up decode_compound
>> and functions that it calls into smaller functions, just like I've
>> been doing with decode_line_1.  These will, of course, require
>> approval.

>> Once all that's done, I'll then get back to cleaning up decode_line_1
>> some more.

>> How does that sound?

> Sounds good.

Okay, it's a plan, then.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu