From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29402 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2009 13:35:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 29393 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2009 13:35:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:35:13 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MrAwp-0002Dm-8e for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:34:55 +0200 Received: from h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru ([86.62.88.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:34:55 +0200 Received: from vladimir by h86-62-88-129.ln.rinet.ru with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:34:55 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: [PATCH:doc] GDB/MI attribute names Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <19131.17428.428101.481874@totara.tehura.co.nz> <19132.47302.194071.325914@totara.tehura.co.nz> <83ocoztb7v.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00793.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Vladimir Prus >> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:50:53 +0400 >> >> > should be specified as a sequence of alphabetic >> > characters and underscores. >> >> That's again using the word 'specified', as if VARIABLE is something you write >> specification for > > No, you are interpreting the word ``specified'' to narrowly. It also > means ``given'', please see how we use it elsewhere in the manual. The 'given' is not right here either I'm afraid. 'variable' *is* a sequence. The wording above suggest that there are alternative ways to describe a variable, and somebody should use the way that uses alphanumerical characters. - Volodya