From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21823 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2012 23:53:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 21815 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Jul 2012 23:53:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-bk0-f73.google.com (HELO mail-bk0-f73.google.com) (209.85.214.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:52:52 +0000 Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so111830bkw.0 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:52:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:date :to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:from :x-gm-message-state; bh=AQeQ9y93dZrzxoLFl3aqPwVxjklAgKCxP/Zv9zH/KKk=; b=NkYHVEuwE9uKLUXlXbD9rntIjO4lnn1yCzsobPUsN+zi3j/GmeRc4u7C0f3xfuh1+p EcjTe4jwkb0k67zzIF3QItL7wYT7R+iyB+iejhfaGCBLAvlz2syT+moGTm0dof+vavJu kXXZgOTGdK08brDTMhYEkQTowbcqlKUct7azKW2gzItoB6ChhRZgp7Ec4RN0xLTIFw9V J0iVg3V8AHDPsjzSGetWWOY5TTrWtuLDlhkF2LiwO1s9zsk29E0zRwPCPRdCT+mXd+39 Rjgf+HOg3ttKlvZ+O0ON+dSi3RUuHQE4Oaql3Xvs17a7+z3UBN7tqMpL4E4D64il9YmL 6Hsw== Received: by 10.180.82.226 with SMTP id l2mr902432wiy.1.1342655570832; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.82.226 with SMTP id l2mr902424wiy.1.1342655570789; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hpza10.eem.corp.google.com ([74.125.121.33]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s44si597009eeo.0.2012.07.18.16.52.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA); Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ruffy2.mtv.corp.google.com (ruffy2.mtv.corp.google.com [172.18.110.129]) by hpza10.eem.corp.google.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6248620004E; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:52:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20487.19536.142661.229373@ruffy2.mtv.corp.google.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:53:00 -0000 To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, eliz@gnu.org Subject: Re: [RFA, doc RFA] New option set use-deprecated-index-sections In-Reply-To: <20120718233303.GA32519@host2.jankratochvil.net> References: <20120717214257.GA9394@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20487.14790.662664.583456@ruffy2.mtv.corp.google.com> <20120718233303.GA32519@host2.jankratochvil.net> From: dje@google.com X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmj7t48nuqvpmWUehZDGGiorWpBt12jPs/hqW7AeFrahegC+QcCqA6SZz0Nl4zQsCnF4eCDvqvFXh0/zverzGnckGuiu0MD13bRZCumw3ijohTzDaH6xOmPS5nzTMzddFwwr/XLtdqIKskQ+KdTbi+VducoWfqWX+NNDZZ9yXZGK7oQJz5R0Za7i60XvIUgMZlLZjhY 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: 2012-07/txt/msg00311.txt.bz2 Jan Kratochvil writes: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:33:42 +0200, dje@google.com wrote: > > + use "-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'". > [...] > > +`-iex \"set use-deprecated-index-sections on\"' to gdb."), > > It is more Eli's decision but I would find it overquoted. > (1) ` is deprecated by GNU Coding Standard in favor of '. > (2) If user really passes "-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'" > to GDB it will not work: > $ gdb "-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'" > gdb: unrecognized option '-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'' > > So IMO: > > + use: -iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on' > [...] > > +-iex \"set use-deprecated-index-sections on\" to gdb."), One could apply the same reasoning to a lot of other places. I'm happy to follow whatever rules there are, I just require them to be applied consistently. Maybe it should be phrased as <-iex \"set use-deprecated-index-sections on\"> since when we say "Type to continue" we assume they know we're not asking them to type < r e t u r n >. :-(