Re: [PATCH] Stale FIXME

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>]

Fernando Nasser writes:
 > David Deephanphongs wrote:
 > > 
 > > There appears to be a stale FIXME in main.c - it warns about the
 > > argument after the program-name (corearg):
 > >   /* FIXME: The documentation says this can be a "ProcID". as well. */
 > > 
 > > GDB /does/ treat the corearg as a PID, though.
 > > First it tries to open corearg as a core-file.  If that fails, it attempts
 > > to use it as a PID (main.c:615-623).
 > 
 > Yes, and I use it all the time to debug gdb with gdb.  That was a badly worded FIXME text.   It was supposed to say that we should not be overloading variables and filling them with something that is not related to its name -- 4 bytes is a small price to pay for clarity IMO.
 > 
 > I still would like to keep a note there that saying that corearg may be a PID and not a core file name. Something like:
 > 
 > 	  /* COREARG can be the name of a core file or
 >              the "ProcID" of a process we should attach to. */
 > 
 > Can you submit your patch with the replacement text?  I will ask permission to Elena and check it in.
 > 

I see, you added the comment... :-) So I trust you know what you meant
to say. Please, modify the comment as you indicated above.

Thanks
Elena


 > Thanks for the catch.
 > 
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