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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:49:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] Implement completion limiting
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> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:14:15 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
> Cc: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>, 
> 	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> The patch stops searching when the limit is reached.
> It doesn't keep looking for at least one more to see if there are any more.
> Is this absolutely critical?  Why?

Because if the user sets the maximum at N, she wants to see N
elements, and if there are exactly N, she shouldn't get any warnings,
IMO.