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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 6/6] UML - Fix hostfs style
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:21:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070824152127.GA7190@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708231655.00034.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

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?

				Jeff

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Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-24 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-17 19:43 [PATCH 6/6] UML - Fix hostfs style Jeff Dike
2007-08-18 14:19 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-23 14:54   ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
2007-08-24 15:21     ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2007-08-24 16:10       ` Blaisorblade

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