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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Return error code in get_number
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2hqku59.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394677950-4054-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> (Yao Qi's	message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:32:25 +0800")

>>>>> "Yao" == Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> writes:

Yao> Patch #5 tries to teach GDB to accept convenience variable in MI
Yao> commands, in which we use get_number to parse string and get number.
Yao> However, get_number returns zero for any kinds of error, and callers
Yao> can't tell from it.  Patch #4 changes get_number's interface to
Yao> return parsing status and parsed number.  This patch also moves
Yao> some printing messages out of get_number, and let the callers to
Yao> print messages according to returned status.

Could you say what you want this for?
I don't understand why an MI client would ever use it.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-13 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-13  2:35 Yao Qi
2014-03-13  2:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] get_number returns status in details Yao Qi
2014-03-13  2:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] Accept convenience variable in commands -break-passcount and -break-commands Yao Qi
2014-03-14  8:22   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-13  2:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] Change argument 'args' of get_tracepoint_by_number to char * Yao Qi
2014-03-13  2:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] Emit wrong value error when parsing range Yao Qi
2014-03-13  2:35 ` [PATCH 1/5] Remove argument 'state' from get_tracepoint_by_number Yao Qi
2014-03-13 15:14 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2014-03-14  0:59   ` [PATCH 0/5] Return error code in get_number Yao Qi
2014-03-14 14:38     ` Tom Tromey
2014-03-17  0:51       ` Yao Qi
2014-05-15 17:58         ` Tom Tromey

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