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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Giuseppe MONTALTO <giuseppe.montalto@st.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new MI command for pattern filling of memory regions
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In-Reply-To: <76FE3225DF13124EA2D05B290B624C95E65FECE356@SAFEX1MAIL1.st.com>	(Giuseppe MONTALTO's message of "Thu, 10 May 2012 13:40:53 +0200")
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>>>>> "Giuseppe" == Giuseppe MONTALTO <giuseppe.montalto@st.com> writes:

Giuseppe> I did so, in the past, on a custom version of gdb, and this
Giuseppe> caused me a lot of trouble while migrating to a newer release:
Giuseppe> I discovered that the new release featured another argument to
Giuseppe> a command I had amended, which was conflicting with my own
Giuseppe> changes, so I had to rework both!

Now you're in the lucky position to add arguments and mess up other
people's private extensions :-)

Ok, seriously, I think adding an optional argument, if that is what you
need, is the better route.

Tom