Re: [RFA 0/5] Explicit linespecs

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 07/29/2012 07:50 PM, Keith Seitz wrote:
> On 07/27/2012 04:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>> What exactly does the "offset" option do?  Is it a line offset, or is
>> it measured in other units?  If it's a line offset, then why not call
>> it "-line"?  If "offset" means it's a relative line offset, then what
>> is it relative to?
> 
> It is completely analogous to the linespec parser. It could be an absolute line number (if -source given) or relative (if -function/-label). [Note that function/label relative offsets have not been implemented yet -- right now they are simply ignored (per maintainers request).]


ENOEXAMPLES :-)

It might be good to check what other debuggers spell these options.

> 
> I can certainly rename the option to be more user-friendly. I just used the same terminology that is used inside the parser.
> 
>> Also, the above doesn't seem to cover the magical '*function' location
>> spec.
> 
> That's the -address option.
> 
> Keith

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Pedro Alves