From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25574 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2012 10:10:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 25560 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Nov 2012 10:10:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:10:30 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1Tdeb7-0004hK-1v from Yao_Qi@mentor.com ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:10:29 -0800 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:10:28 -0800 Received: from qiyao.dyndns.org (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.289.1; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:10:27 -0800 Message-ID: <50B5E2EF.7040707@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:10:00 -0000 From: Yao Qi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Alves CC: Joel Brobecker , Subject: Re: [PATCH] partial fix PR 14777: Add abbrev cmd 'fo' for 'forward-search'. References: <1352293267-6640-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <20121107151342.GG5103@adacore.com> <509B7DA5.3040009@codesourcery.com> <509BD985.3040500@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <509BD985.3040500@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: 2012-11/txt/msg00800.txt.bz2 On 11/09/2012 12:10 AM, Pedro Alves wrote: > These are user visible changes, and if we don't tell users about the > change in NEWS, those who have tripped on the docs-not-match-reality > issue before will never try the abbreviations again, thinking they > don't really work, even though they do now work. IOW, IMO, this > is NEWS worty. Pedro, changes in this patch [1] are not user visible, because even without this patch nowadays, the (implicitly defined) abbreviated commands still behave correctly. This patch [1] is to prevent these abbreviated commands becoming ambiguous in the future. Of course, this is a ping to the patch [1]. -- Yao (齐尧) [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-11/msg00183.html