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[COMMITTED] completer.c (complete_line): Remove incorrect comment.

Message ID yjt2pp9eop5h.fsf@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com
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Doug Evans Feb. 12, 2015, 8:23 p.m. UTC 
  Hi.

While looking into PR 17960 (thanks Keith!) I found this comment
which was from an earlier version of a patch and didn't get updated.

Committed.

2015-02-12  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>

	* completer.c (complete_line): Remove incorrect comment.
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diff --git a/gdb/completer.c b/gdb/completer.c
index bfd2788..add79cc 100644
--- a/gdb/completer.c
+++ b/gdb/completer.c
@@ -860,14 +860,7 @@  throw_max_completions_reached_error (void)
 /* Generate completions all at once.  Returns a vector of unique strings
    allocated with xmalloc.  Returns NULL if there are no completions
    or if max_completions is 0.  If max_completions is non-negative, this will
-   return at most max_completions + 1 strings.
-
-   If max_completions strings are collected, an extra string is added which
-   is a text message to inform the user that the list may be truncated.
-   This extra string serves two purposes:
-   1) Inform the user.
-   2) Prevent readline from being able to find a common prefix to advance
-      point to, since it's working with an incomplete list.
+   return at most max_completions strings.
 
    TEXT is the caller's idea of the "word" we are looking at.