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Re: How much explanation to include in change descriptions
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: How much explanation to include in change descriptions |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:11:11 -0500 |
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> > > Fix .gdbinit to work with Lisp_Word (Bug#29957)
> >
> > is unhelpfully terse: it makes people work harder to understand the
change.
> We could change the line to:
> Fix .gdbinit when Lisp_Word is pointer (Bug#29957)
> as this captures the detail that was missing in the too-terse version.
I agree that would be better. But
> Cast Lisp_Word value to EMACS_INT, since it might be a pointer (Bug#29957)
seems even better.
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- Re: How much explanation to include in change descriptions, Richard Stallman, 2018/01/16
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- Re: How much explanation to include in change descriptions, Richard Stallman, 2018/01/17
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