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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
Cc: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>,
	 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	 gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gdb: Allow parenthesis to group arguments to user-defined commands
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 02:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvncvbc8.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1535488137.7778.4.camel@skynet.be> (Philippe Waroquiers's	message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:28:57 +0200")

>>>>> "Philippe" == Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> writes:

Philippe> On the downside, quoting with parenthesis is something very peculiar
Philippe> (is there some other tool/shell/... using this convention ?).

gdb itself does this in some cases.  Often an expression can be
terminated with a ",", but parentheses can prevent this termination.  I
believe this can occur with linespecs as well.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-30  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-15 14:39 [PATCH 0/2] " Andrew Burgess
2018-08-15 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Make testnames unique in gdb.base/commands.exp Andrew Burgess
2018-08-30 15:26   ` Tom Tromey
     [not found] ` <eaa6d3a2975194a7ef3a2aa40e335c7986b205d8.1534343840.git.andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
2018-08-15 18:24   ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb: Allow parenthesis to group arguments to user-defined commands Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 19:32   ` Philippe Waroquiers
2018-08-25 20:53     ` Philippe Waroquiers
2018-08-25 22:43       ` Andrew Burgess
2018-08-28 15:54         ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-28 18:43           ` Andrew Burgess
2018-08-28 20:29             ` Philippe Waroquiers
2018-08-28 23:29               ` Andrew Burgess
2018-08-30  2:19                 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-30 21:19                 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2018-08-31 20:59                   ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-01 11:10                     ` Philippe Waroquiers
2018-09-01 14:20                       ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-01 15:36                         ` Philippe Waroquiers
2018-08-30  2:26               ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-09-06 23:29   ` [PATCHv2] gdb: Rewrite argument handling for " Andrew Burgess
2018-09-07  6:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 20:36     ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-07 22:47       ` Andrew Burgess
2018-09-08  6:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08  5:35     ` Philippe Waroquiers
2018-09-08 14:33       ` Andrew Burgess

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