From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24917 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2018 12:13:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 21715 invoked by uid 89); 16 Sep 2018 12:13:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:D*ca, Hx-languages-length:979 X-HELO: gateway23.websitewelcome.com Received: from gateway23.websitewelcome.com (HELO gateway23.websitewelcome.com) (192.185.49.124) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:13:57 +0000 Received: from cm14.websitewelcome.com (cm14.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.7]) by gateway23.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22397801 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 07:13:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id 1Vw3g6PH2kBj61Vw3gGlr5; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 07:13:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=VPL95A+GEAdaep05qxMIYJOxlPyDTxMAC2umX5v/V+Q=; b=eRUIFmEehjuNfsuw3iodi0QFVO eKz27jdIF7ek8q9FjDJ00w9PxrfivRg7i77f9oNr5lA239BWW2MOvnaoqfCKWIMrWjIdG2zpxrB9q vOEA+eHDM38zIAtZOlIZ9X3j+; Received: from 97-122-190-66.hlrn.qwest.net ([97.122.190.66]:46062 helo=bapiya) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Vw3-003ok5-JV; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 07:13:55 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Simon Marchi Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Use GNU style for metasyntactic variables in gdb References: <20180915025522.18723-1-tom@tromey.com> <20180915025522.18723-3-tom@tromey.com> <1f40ea99-e324-eb58-9049-4063f0204bc9@simark.ca> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:13:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1f40ea99-e324-eb58-9049-4063f0204bc9@simark.ca> (Simon Marchi's message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2018 23:16:59 -0400") Message-ID: <877ejlr665.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00531.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Simon" =3D=3D Simon Marchi writes: Simon> On 2018-09-14 10:55 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote: >> I searched for other spots that did not use the GNU style for >> metasyntactic syntactic variables. This patch fixes most of the ones >> I found in gdb proper. There are a few remaining in MI, but I was >> unsure whether those should be touched. Simon> LGTM. Simon> Out of curiosity, is there a place in the GNU coding standard that e= xplicitly Simon> explains this? Well, I thought so. Maybe there was in the past and it was removed? Or maybe it needs to be added, because it is definitely a GNU convention. You can see it in the --help of any GNU program. Maybe this is one of those things that Fran=C3=A7ois Pinard was planning to put in the proposed Gnits manual that we never wrote. I sent a note to bug-standards. Anyway I could only find a mention in the Texinfo manual, in the @var node. Tom