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Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA?] Should break FILE:LINENO skip prologue?
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
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On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:08 -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:

> Once it has recognized the '*', linespec.c passes things off directly
> to the language expression parser, with no further munging; see the
> code fragments I posted here:
> 
>     http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-01/msg00354.html
> 
> So, the syntax of things that may appear after the '*' is exactly an
> expression, no less or more.

I see, so I'm arguing from stale state.
The linespec parser used to do much more than that.
Sounds like an improvement, anyway...