Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 6/6] UML - Fix hostfs style

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On venerdì 24 agosto 2007, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:54:59PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > > actually. Personally I'd prefer:
> > >
> > > 	else
> > > 		type = OS_TYPE_DIR;
> >
> > I strongly agree with this style; beyond style itself, one strong reason
> > is that joining statements hinder singlestepping through function code
> > (it's easy to run gdb on UML, and anyway kgdb exists).
>
> How does that help?  gdb should stop as easily on a "else foo;" line as on
> 	else
> 		foo;
> right?
Sorry, a better example is on:

	if (bar)
		foo;
where the test and foo are two distinct parts. One step is "I execute the if", 
another (possible) step is "I perform foo" - which is not easy to tell if it 
is not on a different line.
-- 
"Doh!" (cit.), I've made another mistake!
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

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