Re: RFA info macro [-at LOCATION,] (v2)

[Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, David Taylor
<dtaylor@usendtaylorx2l.lss.emc.com> wrote:
> This adds a NEWS entry as requested by Eli and I believe addresses his
> concerns with regard to gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo.  The other two files
> gdb/macrocmd.c and gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-macros.exp are unchanged
> from the previous submission.  I updated the gdb/ChangeLog entry to
> include the gdb/NEWS addition..
>
> A few releases ago it was possible to set a location that would be used
> by 'info location' by typing something like:
>
>     list file.c:42
>
> and then do:
>
>     info macro MACRONAME
>
> .  Sometime between release 7.1 and 7.8 that stopped working.
>
> The following patch adds the option [-at LOCATION,] to 'info macro' to
> enable the use of a user selected location as a documented feature.

Hi.

The "," in "-at LOCATION," seems a bit random, relative to other commands.

Maybe it is the best way to go.
If so, I'd like to see the reasons why it exists documented in the code.

Can we just remove the , and require -- when necessary?