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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New GDB/MI command "-info-gdb-mi-command"
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83siv11soi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384255504-28444-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com>

> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:25:04 +0400
> 
> This patch adds a new GDB/MI command meant for graphical frontends
> trying to determine whether a given GDB/MI command exists or not.
> 
> Examples:
> 
>     -info-gdb-mi-command unsupported-command
>     ^done,command={exists="false"}
>     (gdb)
>     -info-gdb-mi-command symbol-list-lines
>     ^done,command={exists="true"}
>     (gdb)

Sounds good to me.

> +@subheading The @code{-info-gdb-mi-command} Command
> +@findex -info-gdb-mi-command

This should be prominently indexed with @cindex entries, as this
command is very important, and should be easily found.

> +@subsubheading Synopsis
> +
> +@smallexample
> + -info-gdb-mi-command CMD_NAME
> +@end smallexample
> +
> +Query support for the @sc{gdb/mi} command named @var{CMD_NAME}

Ts-ts-ts... ASCII art habits die hard.  Use @var in the example, and
don't upcase CMD_NAME (it is upcased in Info anyway, and will look
better in print in lower case).

> +(the leading dash (@code{-}) in the command name should be omitted).

Is this wise?  How about if we support both with and without the dash?

> +There is no corresponding @value{GDBN} command.

Having a way of querying that in CLI would facilitate better .gdbinit
files, I think.

> +@smallexample
> +-info-gdb-mi-command symbol-list-lines
> +^done,command=@{exists="true"@}
> +@end smallexample

Btw, why "command="?  Perhaps "result="?

Other than that, the documentation is fine with me.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-12 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-10 17:16 [RFC] Add ada-exception-catchpoints to -list-features command output Joel Brobecker
2013-11-10 22:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-12 11:25   ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-12 16:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-13  3:02       ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-11 15:22 ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-12  9:18   ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-12 12:11   ` [RFC] New GDB/MI command "-info-gdb-mi-command" Joel Brobecker
2013-11-12 17:04     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-11-12 17:48       ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-12 18:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-13  3:19           ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-12 21:17     ` André Pönitz
2013-11-13  2:47       ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-14  0:36         ` André Pönitz
2013-11-14  9:48           ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-14 18:31             ` André Pönitz
2013-11-14 19:03         ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-14 19:37           ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-14 20:30             ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-15  5:35               ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-15 12:39                 ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-15 14:38                   ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-15 14:40                     ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-18 17:12                       ` [RFA GDB/MI] Help determine if GDB/MI command exists or not Joel Brobecker
2013-11-18 17:13                         ` [RFA 1/2] New GDB/MI command "-info-gdb-mi-command" Joel Brobecker
2013-11-18 17:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-19  4:35                             ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-19 16:11                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-02  3:26                               ` Joel Brobecker
2013-12-02  3:51                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-02  4:41                                   ` Joel Brobecker
2013-12-02 14:53                               ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-03  4:06                                 ` pushed: " Joel Brobecker
2013-11-18 17:21                         ` [RFA 2/2] Add "undefined-command" error code at end of ^error result Joel Brobecker
2013-11-18 17:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-19  6:02                             ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-19 16:16                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-19 11:19                           ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-20  3:46                             ` Joel Brobecker
2013-12-03  4:08                               ` pushed: " Joel Brobecker
2013-11-19 15:05                         ` [RFA GDB/MI] Help determine if GDB/MI command exists or not Pedro Alves

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