Re: [patch] Add support for hooking prefix commands

Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-09T12:40:56Z

> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:15:15 +0200
> From: Sorin Otescu <sorinu@gmail.com>
>
> I recently needed to add a hook for the "info threads" command.
> Unfortunately, this was not possible because GDB only allows hooking of
> single word commands.
> This patch adds support for multi-word command (prefix command) hooks.
> In my case, the format of the hook commands is:

Thanks.

> define hook-info_threads
> define hookpost-info_threads

Can we have underscore characters in commands? If so, this
implementation would defeat hooking them.

Anyway, if this is accepted, please write a short patch for the manual
as well.