From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1526 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2009 10:04:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 1382 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Sep 2009 10:04:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_37,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx.southnet.co.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:04:08 +0000 Received: from totara (244.27.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.27.244]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AD73DA84F for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:04:05 +1200 (NZST) Received: by totara (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7060BC167; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:04:04 +1200 (NZST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19131.17428.428101.481874@totara.tehura.co.nz> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:04:00 -0000 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: [PATCH:doc] GDB/MI attribute names From: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) 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: 2009-09/txt/msg00743.txt.bz2 This patch, slightly paranoid, document the current practice for attribute names. I don't want future names to break exiting parsers. -- Nick http://users.snap.net.nz/~nickrob 2009-09-24 Nick Roberts * gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Output Syntax): Document current practice for attribute names. *** gdb.texinfo.~1.628.~ 2009-09-22 10:40:52.000000000 +1200 --- gdb.texinfo 2009-09-24 21:58:16.000000000 +1200 *************** the log output is prefixed by @samp{&}. *** 21260,21265 **** --- 21260,21268 ---- New @sc{gdb/mi} commands should only output @var{lists} containing @var{values}. + @item + @var{variable} expressions should be alphabetic words or comprise of + alphabetic words separated by underscores. @end itemize