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Re: [PATCH 2/4] Error on bad count number
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 05:50:51 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Error on bad count number
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> Nothing in a name like "get number" suggests to me only positive
> numbers would be returned. I think it should be up to the
> caller to handle whether the returned value is valid in
> that context.
I agree. If useful, we could have a second routine that calls
get_number and errors out if the number returned was negative,
like get_natural_number for instance.
--
Joel