From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use double quotes in some gdb output
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:06:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8733z0hf3n.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260508142221.3434435-1-tromey@adacore.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri, 8 May 2026 08:22:21 -0600")
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> writes:
Tom> I looked for spots where gdb was using `...' or ``...'' quoting, and
Tom> changed these to use double quotes instead.
Tom> I think it might be good to regularize output quoting in gdb. My
Tom> proposal is to use double quotes, though single quotes would also be
Tom> fine. Using `...', though, is a kind of older style and has fallen
Tom> out of favor in GNU; the relevant node is here:
Tom> https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Quote-Characters.html
I'm going to check this in now.
I may also look at changing '...' to "..." in the output; that is,
standardize on double quotes.
Tom
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