From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3233 invoked by alias); 14 Jul 2017 12:08:16 -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 3224 invoked by uid 89); 14 Jul 2017 12:08:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:622 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:08:14 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F24EC0467D5; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:08:13 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 4F24EC0467D5 Authentication-Results: ext-mx07.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx07.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=palves@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com 4F24EC0467D5 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn04.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.4]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A911B70BB6; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [RFA 01/10] Rationalize "backtrace" command line parsing To: Tom Tromey References: <20170425194113.17862-1-tom@tromey.com> <20170425194113.17862-2-tom@tromey.com> <9cfa324d-f685-405f-92be-f74846da4e91@redhat.com> <87shi5me8i.fsf@tromey.com> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <8bb0d141-1feb-bc06-b9cd-08f069bd6c4f@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:08:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87shi5me8i.fsf@tromey.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00181.txt.bz2 On 07/09/2017 11:34 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves writes: > > Pedro> It might be good to clarify "help bt", to show something around: > Pedro> Usage: backtrace [QUALIFIERS]... COUNT > > How about the appended? Thanks, LGTM, with a minor nit: > +Usage: backtrace [QUALIFIERS]... [COUNT]\n\ I should have suggested "[QUALIFIER]..." (singular). The "..." already indicates you can have multiple instances. The output of $ grep -rn "]\.\.\." -rn seems to agree. and so does "ls --help", etc. Thanks, Pedro Alves