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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
	Toshihito Kikuchi <k.toshihito@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new format letter to dump instructions backward
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2015581.ugHgmqoO9R@ralph.baldwin.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A609E7.6050903@redhat.com>

On Monday, January 25, 2016 11:41:27 AM Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 01/24/2016 09:28 PM, Toshihito Kikuchi wrote:
> Seems to me that some other UI would be better.  E.g.,:
> 
>  #1 - a different switch, like "x -back /i " ?
> 
>  #2 - a different command, like "bx" ?
> 
>  #3 - negative repeat counts ?
> 
>    (gdb) x /4i    // next 4 instructions
>    (gdb) x /-4i   // previous 4 instructions
> 
>    (gdb) x /4bx    // next 4 bytes, in hex
>    (gdb) x /-4bx   // previous 4 bytes, in hex
> 
> 
> Added #1 just for completeness, I don't find it very convenient.
> 
> #3 feels natural to me.  What do you (and others) think?

I think #3 is the most natural as well.  I also think this is a
very useful feature.

-- 
John Baldwin


  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1827952218.466587.1453670934999.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2016-01-24 21:31 ` Toshihito Kikuchi
2016-01-25 11:41   ` Pedro Alves
2016-01-25 18:10     ` John Baldwin [this message]
2016-01-25 18:22       ` Paul_Koning
2016-01-25 18:27         ` Pedro Alves
2016-01-25 20:11           ` Paul_Koning
2016-01-26  5:39             ` Toshihito Kikuchi
2016-01-27 16:04               ` Andrew Burgess
2016-01-27 20:09                 ` Paul_Koning
2016-01-28 11:53                   ` Pedro Alves
2016-02-07 23:19                     ` [PATCH] Negative repeat count for 'x' command Toshihito Kikuchi
2016-02-17 11:38                       ` Pedro Alves
2016-03-23  0:27                         ` Toshihito Kikuchi
2016-04-11 12:17                       ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-15  0:30                         ` Toshihito Kikuchi
     [not found]                           ` <5714DE73.5010104@redhat.com>
2016-04-28 18:06                             ` Toshihito Kikuchi

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