From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2635 invoked by alias); 14 Aug 2012 15:08:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 2626 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Aug 2012 15:08:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:08:36 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q7EF8YpL001973 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:08:34 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q7EF8WUv010185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:08:33 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Mike Frysinger Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: improve usage strings References: <1344704080-24677-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <201208111336.41052.vapier@gentoo.org> <83ehndco4n.fsf@gnu.org> <201208111408.02531.vapier@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:08:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <201208111408.02531.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:08:01 -0400") Message-ID: <87vcglzf2n.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00404.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Frysinger writes: >> Isn't that the case of "finish &" ? Mike> i'm not familiar with async behavior in gdb. is it something that Mike> applies to all commands, or just to a select few ? Just a few. From (info "(gdb) Background Execution") they are: run, attach, step, stepi, next, nexti, continue, finish, until. Mike> if the latter, should we still document it in the usage string ? I think that would be the most informative. Tom