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> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:52:29 -0400, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:
> 
> 
>>> Okay, here's a revised patch that calls them "maint list {,p}symtab".
>>> Unfortunatly, there is `(gdb) list' command, so one would expect a
>>> certain level of correspondance between `(gdb) list' and `(gdb maint
>>> list'.  This is like `(gdb) info breakpoints' vs `(gdb) maint info
>>> breakpoints'.
> 
> 
>>> This also rules out my `maint search' suggestion :-(
> 
> 
>>> `maint query <db> <query>'?
> 
> 
>> Jim, did you see this point?
> 
> 
> For what it's worth, the existing 'maint print' commands already break
> this correspondence: 'print' doesn't send output to a file, but 'maint
> print' does.  There might be some way of naming GDB's commands to
> preserve this correspondence, to make the arguments consistent, and to
> be easy to remember, but I think it will take a fair amount of
> cleaning up.

I know, that doesn't excuse new commands though.

Andrew