Re: [RFA/PATCH] breakpoint.c: fix until command

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-10T22:28:52Z

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:29:33PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:12:50PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> > > I don't much like having options, it's too much to type. :-) I think
> > > we should leave the until as it is, name and all. Or it will confuse
> > > people even more. I like 'to' as a possible simple name for the other
> > > form. Or 'through'.
> >
> > The problem is, neither to or through makes sense to me as an option; I
> > can't figure out what it will do.
> >
>
> Not as an option, I was thinking as a separate command.

Sorry, so was I. I can't see what "to" would do, really.

> (to tell you the through, it should just be an argument to 'continue').

I suppose, but then we're back where we started.

continue
continue until foo
continue to 34

[still not clear what the difference there is.]

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer