[RFA 04/12] Update memattr.c help strings

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Wed May 9 20:35:00 GMT 2018


>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

>> add_cmd ("mem", class_vars, delete_mem_command, _("\
>> Delete memory region.\n\
>> Arguments are the code numbers of the memory regions to delete.\n\
>> -Usage: delete mem <code number>...\n\
>> +Usage: delete mem [CODE]...\n\
>> Do \"info mem\" to see current list of code numbers."), &deletelist);
>> 

Pedro> I was surprised and confused with the references to "code" and
Pedro> "code numbers" here.  These are just the numbers as displayed
Pedro> in the first column of "info mem", right?  How about changing
Pedro> the references to "code numbers" and "CODE" above to 
Pedro> numbers or IDs?  The manuals uses "nums".

I went with IDs, like:

      add_cmd ("mem", class_vars, delete_mem_command, _("\
    Delete memory region.\n\
    Arguments are the identifiers of the memory regions to delete.\n\
    Usage: delete mem [ID]...\n\
    Do \"info mem\" to see current list of IDs."), &deletelist);

Tom



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