From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 119483 invoked by alias); 6 May 2015 14:01:48 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 119468 invoked by uid 89); 6 May 2015 14:01:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 May 2015 14:01:46 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-fem-05.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.43]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1YpztP-0004aN-B4 from Luis_Gustavo@mentor.com ; Wed, 06 May 2015 07:01:43 -0700 Received: from [172.30.2.216] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-05.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.43) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.224.2; Wed, 6 May 2015 07:01:42 -0700 Message-ID: <554A1EC0.4060101@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 14:01:00 -0000 From: Luis Machado Reply-To: Luis Machado User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation changes for the new zhexadecimal format References: <1430490758-23247-1-git-send-email-lgustavo@codesourcery.com> <1430490758-23247-4-git-send-email-lgustavo@codesourcery.com> <83vbgcqqu9.fsf@gnu.org> <554A1D90.10707@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <554A1D90.10707@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 On 05/06/2015 10:56 AM, Luis Machado wrote: > On 05/01/2015 12:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> From: Luis Machado >>> Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 11:32:38 -0300 >>> >>> This patch updates the documentation to reflect the addition of the new >>> zhexadecimal format option for -var-set-format and also adds a NEWS >>> entry >>> for the change. >> >> OK, but should we perhaps explain what zhexadecimal means? I didn't >> know about it until I read this patch. > > I'm not too sure where that explanation should go. The other formats are > self-explanatory. What about 'zero-padded-hexadecimal'? Too long? > > The 'z' is an attempt to map back to the CLI format specifier /z when > using the print and x commands. Though that requires some GDB-fu to get > the first time. > > Also, i've been informed by IDE guys that these strings are usually translated, so 'zero-padded-hexadecimal' would be correct for internationalization purposes so it can be translated to other languages, as opposed to 'zhexadecimal'.