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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: "set" command with 2 arguments instead of one?
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnny45zi.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141123042417.GA839@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of	"Sun, 23 Nov 2014 08:24:17 +0400")

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

> It proposes the introduction of a couple of commands, one to dump
> the contents of the of the bounds table, and one to set the bounds
> for any given address. Since those commands are MPX-specific,
> I would like to have them prefixed somehow. But the beyond the
> fact that I'd like to have them prefixed, I was wondering if
> set/show commands could be used for that. Eg:
>
>     show mpx bound ADDR
>     set mpx bound ADDR LBOUND UBOUND
>
> The reason why I am asking for comments is that the "set" command
> above has a syntax which is slightly unusual for "set" commands
> in the sense that "set" commands nearly always only have one argument,
> whereas it has 3 in this case.

How do you parse the arguments if they are arbitrary expressions?

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-23  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-23  4:24 Joel Brobecker
2014-11-23  9:32 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-11-23  9:53   ` Joel Brobecker
2014-11-24  5:39     ` Doug Evans
2014-11-24  7:13       ` Joel Brobecker
2014-11-24 10:38         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-24 15:36         ` Doug Evans
2015-04-13 15:32         ` Tedeschi, Walfred
2015-04-14 12:49           ` Joel Brobecker
2015-04-20  5:44             ` Doug Evans
2015-04-20 15:25               ` Joel Brobecker
2015-04-20 15:30               ` Tedeschi, Walfred

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