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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: improve usage strings
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208111408.02531.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ehndco4n.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Saturday 11 August 2012 13:52:24 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > so it seems like finish *does* secretly accept options, but in this case
> > it's trying to be secret about it rather than someone just didn't fully
> > document it.  or i read the "arg" parsing logic above incorrectly.
> 
> Isn't that the case of "finish &" ?

i'm not familiar with async behavior in gdb.  is it something that applies to 
all commands, or just to a select few ?  if the latter, should we still 
document it in the usage string ?
	Usage: finish [&]
if the former, seems weird that every command would parse it itself ...
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-11 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-11 16:55 Mike Frysinger
2012-08-11 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-11 17:36   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-11 17:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-11 18:08       ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-08-14 15:08         ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-12  5:06     ` Doug Evans
2012-08-12  5:10       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-12 17:35       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-13  2:06 ` [PATCH v2] " Mike Frysinger
2012-08-13 20:29   ` Doug Evans
2012-08-14  5:13     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-23 11:11     ` Pedro Alves
2012-08-14  5:29 ` [PATCH v3] " Mike Frysinger
2012-08-14 17:34   ` Doug Evans
2012-08-14 18:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-15  1:58       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-15  7:22         ` Regression for gdb.base/help.exp [Re: [PATCH v3] gdb: improve usage strings] Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-15 16:25           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-15 16:27             ` Doug Evans
2012-08-20  4:29             ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-08-17  3:06           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-23 16:26         ` further improve "handle" help string Pedro Alves
2012-08-23 16:44           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-23 17:18           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-23 17:38             ` Pedro Alves
2012-08-23 11:11     ` [PATCH v3] gdb: improve usage strings Pedro Alves
2012-08-23 16:45       ` Pedro Alves

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