From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] tools/fuzz: introduce x86 instruction emulator target
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:00:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161212180055.GR25175@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22606.58764.682677.354033@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 05:59:40PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] tools/fuzz: introduce x86 instruction emulator target"):
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 04:30:30AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 12.12.16 at 12:19, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> > > > I mean "states". There are three states we need to reset.
> > >
> > > Hmm, to me as a non-native speaker it feels wrong to use plural
> > > here (just like for e.g. milk), but maybe I'm wrong.
> >
> > "State" is countable when used to represent the condition of
> > somebody/something. Various other meanings of "state" don't apply here.
>
> I think "three states" can only be used to mean three alternative
> possible values of the same variable. It cannot be used to mean three
> separate variables.
>
> So "a state" is one of the possible values. You can also say
> something like "the system is in a broken state", but again, this
> refers to a specific state amongst all the possible different states.
>
> "Reset all states" is really odd and could almost never be right.
>
David suggested "reset all state variables". That's what I have now.
Wei.
> Ian.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 9:28 [PATCH v3 0/7] Fuzzing targets for oss-fuzz Wei Liu
2016-12-12 9:28 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] tools/fuzz: introduce libelf target Wei Liu
2016-12-12 9:43 ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-12 9:28 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] x86emul/test: factor out emul_test_make_stack_executable Wei Liu
2016-12-12 9:28 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] x86emul/test: factor out emul_test_{read_cr, cpuid} Wei Liu
2016-12-12 9:45 ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-12 9:51 ` Wei Liu
2016-12-12 9:28 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] x86emul/test: factor out emul_test_get_fpu Wei Liu
2016-12-12 9:46 ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-12 9:28 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] tools/fuzz: introduce x86 instruction emulator target Wei Liu
2016-12-12 9:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-12 11:19 ` Wei Liu
2016-12-12 11:30 ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-12 11:40 ` Wei Liu
2016-12-12 17:59 ` Ian Jackson
2016-12-12 18:00 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-12-12 17:51 ` Wei Liu
2016-12-13 7:42 ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-16 9:03 ` George Dunlap
2016-12-12 9:28 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] tools: hook up fuzz directory Wei Liu
2016-12-12 9:28 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] tools/fuzz: add README Wei Liu
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