From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Use GNU style for metasyntactic variables in gdb
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 03:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b627cb61-6780-a101-8d9a-da33bb3ab366@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180915025522.18723-3-tom@tromey.com>
On 2018-09-14 10:55 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
> I searched for other spots that did not use the GNU style for
> metasyntactic syntactic variables. This patch fixes most of the ones
> I found in gdb proper. There are a few remaining in MI, but I was
> unsure whether those should be touched.
About MI, I don't see why it should be different. Do you have specific
examples?
I stumbled on some messages like this:
error (_("-environment-cd: Usage DIRECTORY"));
That looks confusing to me, I would much prefer
error (_("Usage: -environment-cd DIRECTORY"));
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-16 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-15 2:55 [PATCH 0/3] More use of GNU-style metasyntactic variables Tom Tromey
2018-09-15 2:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] Expand "show disassembler-options" output Tom Tromey
2018-09-16 3:12 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-16 12:18 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-15 2:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] Use GNU style for metasyntactic variables in gdb Tom Tromey
2018-09-16 3:17 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-16 12:13 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-16 3:20 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2018-09-16 12:16 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-16 12:42 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-15 2:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] Use GNU style for metasyntactic variables in gdbserver Tom Tromey
2018-09-16 3:17 ` Simon Marchi
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