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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: 'info os' additions again
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 05:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pqaczk9u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAADEBE.7010908@earthlink.net>

> Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 14:16:46 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > FWIW, I never understood the reason why others prefer "info os".
> 
> I'm sure a lot of it comes from the same-but-differentness of the Unix 
> family.  I myself have my right hand on a Macbook and left hand on a 
> Dell running Linux, and so if I'm sticking to Posix API, I want GDB to 
> work the same on the two.

Can you show the "same but different" sub-commands we have now?

What I see in osdata.c is that the info comes from a target-specific
XML file, so it could be anything.

Btw, gotta love this doc string:

  (gdb) help info os
  Show OS data ARG.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-10  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-08 22:49 Stan Shebs
2012-05-08 23:55 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-09  4:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-09 21:17   ` Stan Shebs
2012-05-10  5:21     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-05-10 12:22       ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-10 18:13         ` Stan Shebs
2012-05-10 18:18           ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-10 18:42             ` Stan Shebs
2012-05-10 18:59               ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-10 21:07                 ` Stan Shebs
2012-05-11 18:30                   ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-12  1:33                     ` Matt Rice
2012-05-14 14:52                       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-05-11 20:25           ` Marc Khouzam

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