[OB] comment fix, corelow.c
Mark Kettenis
mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl
Wed Jan 16 22:20:00 GMT 2008
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:11:42 -0800
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:04 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:16:58PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > > cut and paste botch...
> >
> > FYI, no objection, but I think it was right the way it was too...
> >
> > > return (*ops->deprecated_xfer_memory) (offset, readbuf,
> > > - len, 0/*write*/, NULL, ops);
> > > + len, 0/*read*/, NULL, ops);
> >
> > The value of the parameter is 0, and its name was write.
>
> I don't think the comment refers to the name of the parameter.
>
> If you look, there are two adjacent calls to xfer_memory:
>
> if (readbuf)
> return (*ops->deprecated_xfer_memory) (offset, readbuf,
> len, 0/*read*/, NULL, ops);
> if (writebuf)
> return (*ops->deprecated_xfer_memory) (offset, (gdb_byte *) writebuf,
> len, 1/*write*/, NULL, ops);
>
> One call is a read, the other is a write.
>
> None of the other parameters have their names in a comment.
And if you ask me having those comments is silly in the first place.
It's much better to have appropriate #defines and use those instead.
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