Code cleanup - split print_stop_reason / question
Jan Kratochvil
jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Wed Apr 27 13:01:00 GMT 2011
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:27:38 +0200, Kevin Pouget wrote:
> I had a little question regarding Jan's patch below,
> do you remember why you print the `exitstatus' in octal?
This is not from me. When you check the history (I use git annotate file,
git annotate file REVISION^, git annotate file PREVREVISION^ and so on) you
will find that line of code comes from:
commit 14558c99c9b3adcfd7ab7934392a7b958337a015
Author: Jason Molenda <jsm@bugshack.cygnus.com>
Date: Thu Feb 3 04:14:45 2000 +0000
import gdb-2000-02-02 snapshot
So there is no further history and the line's original author is unknown.
AFAIK there was a tradition in UNIX to deal with program exit codes in octal.
I do not know why.
Thanks,
Jan
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