Re: [patch 2/2] [+doc] New -iex and -ix: -ex and -x before inferior load

Doug Evans
2012-02-28T16:25:36Z

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:49:40 +0100
>> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>>
>> --- a/gdb/NEWS
>> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
>> @@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ show breakpoint condition-evaluation
>>    condition evaluation mode.  The use of this extension can be controlled
>>    via the "set remote conditional-breakpoints-packet" command.
>>
>> +* New command line options
>> +
>> +--init-command=FILE, -ix          Like --init-command, -x but execute it
>                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You meant "--command", I believe.
>
>> +                                  before loading inferior.
>> +--init-eval-command=COMMAND, -iex Like --eval-command=COMMAND, -ex but
>> +                                  execute it before loading inferior.
>
> Is it really a good idea to have 2- or 3-letter short options?  It
> started with -nw and -nx, which might make sense, then we added -ex,
> and now -ix and -iex?  If noting else, this will prevent us from ever
> having -e and -i.

I don't understand.
We already have gdb -i=mi2 (for example).