Re: How much explanation to include in change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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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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