From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The new "pp" command in gud is no longer so dangerous...
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:49:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EaJMD-0000op-Mx@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3acgc3nn4.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (storm@cua.dk)
> It would be better to handle that case by treating all values
> as ok, rather than treating all values as bad.
> At least that would work as well as the old code.
Well, there is no "old code" in this case.
It is useless to have the button and make it do nothing.
Meanwhile, just testing for a valid data type ought to enable
it to avoid most crashes. So wouldn't it be better, in the
case where you can't test the pointer's validity, to assume
"yes" instead of assume "no"?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-10 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-09 23:33 The new "pp" command in gud is no longer so dangerous Kim F. Storm
2005-11-10 1:03 ` Nick Roberts
2005-11-10 12:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-10 5:44 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-10 8:36 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-10 20:49 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
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