Re: specifying gdb's exit code

[Daniel Gutson <daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com>]

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What about this?
(I'm not a native English speaker)

If OK, please commit it for me since I don't have write-access.

Thanks!

    Daniel.

2014-04-17  Daniel Gutson  <daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com>

gdb/cli/
        * cli-cmds.c (_initialize_cli_cmds): Improve help message for
the quit command.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Daniel Gutson
<daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Daniel Gutson
>> <daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry. Please ignore this email.
>>>
>>> I just noticed that "quit" already accepts an argument.
>>
>> Heh.
>> IWBN if "help quit" pointed this out though.
>
> I thought the same, since that was the first thing I did (help quit
> and apropos exit),
> it would have helped.
> I'll fix the help and send the patch.
>
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>
> Daniel F. Gutson
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>
>
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>
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>
>
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Daniel F. Gutson
Chief Engineering Officer, SPD


San Lorenzo 47, 3rd Floor, Office 5

Córdoba, Argentina


Phone: +54 351 4217888 / +54 351 4218211

Skype: dgutson

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diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
index bfcd975..40967bf 100644
--- a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
+++ b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
@@ -1685,7 +1685,9 @@ strict == evaluate script according to filename extension, error if not supporte
 			show_script_ext_mode,
 			&setlist, &showlist);
 
-  add_com ("quit", class_support, quit_command, _("Exit gdb."));
+  add_com ("quit", class_support, quit_command, _("\
+Exit gdb.\n\
+Can optionally be followed by the exit code that gdb should return."));
   c = add_com ("help", class_support, help_command,
 	       _("Print list of commands."));
   set_cmd_completer (c, command_completer);