Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation changes for the new zhexadecimal format

Luis Machado
2015-05-06T13:56:44Z

On 05/01/2015 12:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
>> 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.