Re: GDB 7.99.91 MinGW compilation error in cli-script.c

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, simon.marchi@polymtl.ca, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 11:54:03 +0100
> 
> > The code says std::to_string, though.  So it sounds like some coding
> > conventions are being applied here of which I wasn't aware, and
> > neither is Emacs.  Are these conventions described somewhere?
> 
> Just the standard GNU conventions.  The code is defining a new
> function template called gdb::to_string.  Simplified:
> 
>  namespace gdb {
>    template <class T> std::string to_string (const T &val);
>  }
> 
> There are two implementations of that, one for mingw, written
> as a new function template in place.  And another which is
> importing std::to_string into the gdb namespace.  But whatever
> the implementations, it's implementation detail of gdb::to_string.

So the convention is to include the full qualifier of every method?
Including the namespace of the class?  Does that include the whole
chain of namespaces up to the root?  If not, where does one stop?

> > but once again, the convention to put the
> > fully-qualified symbol name in the log entry should be documented, if
> > it isn't already, because Emacs doesn't do that, at least not by
> > default.  
> 
> I can't see how what Emacs does has any bearing here, since AFAIK,
> Emacs isn't written in C++.

I use Emacs commands, such as "C-x 4 a", to generate ChangeLog
entries.  Don't you do the same?  Emacs add-log commands strip the
class and namespace qualifiers.