From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22694 invoked by alias); 19 May 2008 18:20:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 22681 invoked by uid 22791); 19 May 2008 18:20:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bluesmobile.specifix.com (HELO bluesmobile.specifix.com) (216.129.118.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 May 2008 18:20:26 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bluesmobile.specifix.com [216.129.118.140]) by bluesmobile.specifix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157343C50E; Mon, 19 May 2008 11:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC] 09/10 Add "continue --all" From: Michael Snyder To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <200805191620.23279.pedro@codesourcery.com> References: <200805061649.50105.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20080509122003.GA24290@caradoc.them.org> <20080511160001.GI28890@adacore.com> <200805191620.23279.pedro@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:29:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1211221182.3601.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-7.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00573.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 16:20 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > A Sunday 11 May 2008 17:00:01, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > > If you don't like the all prefix then we can go back to continue > > > --all, or even just continue all. Continue takes a numeric argument > > > and all will not conflict. > > > > I hadn't proposed continue all, because we evaluate the integer > as an expression, so that prevents the highly dubious > valued form of using the contents of a variable named "all" in > the inferior with "continue all". This is a very valid concern. Can't have ambiguity. What about "continue /all"? More in keeping with the argument syntax of existing gdb commands (print, examine...)