From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Expand documentation of common-utils.h::FUNCTION_NAME
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22R44BTUibt8ufKV7aSPP-ZFCvafazD6Cb6PXSWkXD3QcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140122045956.GA4762@adacore.com>
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> > gdb/ChangeLog:
>> >
>> > * common/common-utils.h (FUNCTION_NAME): Expand the macro's
>> > documentation a bit.
>> >
>> > I would commit on its own, but since I am going to put the next in
>> > for the same macro up for review, it's just as easy to make that one
>> > wait as well, in case there are comments.
>>
>> Yeah, I stumbled a bit on this myself.
>> It's not clear to me whether not defining it or defining it as NULL
>> (and update all current users to deal with that) is better but I went
>> with keeping things as they are.
>
> I almost had the same thoughts. I agree that it's just best to let
> things as they are until we have evidence that changing them would
> be beneficial. The difference is that I was thinking of defining
> FUNCTION_NAME to something like "<unknown function>" rather than NULL.
> Without more evidence, not clear which would be best...
Yeah.
The argument against <unknown function> is that maybe sometime one
would want to know if its unknown, and comparison with NULL is easier,
more maintainable than strcmp (unless "<unknown function>" was a
macro, but maybe that's overkill).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 5:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 1:52 New ARI warning Sat Jan 18 01:52:44 UTC 2014 GDB Administrator
2014-01-21 10:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] Expand documentation of common-utils.h::FUNCTION_NAME Joel Brobecker
2014-01-21 10:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add ARI (ok) marker for __func__ reference in common-utils.h Joel Brobecker
2014-01-22 4:44 ` Doug Evans
2014-01-22 4:57 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-01-22 5:12 ` pushed: " Joel Brobecker
2014-01-22 4:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] Expand documentation of common-utils.h::FUNCTION_NAME Doug Evans
2014-01-22 4:59 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-01-22 5:20 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2014-01-22 5:12 ` pushed: " Joel Brobecker
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