From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6591 invoked by alias); 19 May 2008 18:49:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 6582 invoked by uid 22791); 19 May 2008 18:49:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ns.suse.de (HELO mx1.suse.de) (195.135.220.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 May 2008 18:49:23 +0000 Received: from Relay1.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA83042137; Mon, 19 May 2008 20:49:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Schwab To: Michael Snyder Cc: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker , Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFC] 09/10 Add "continue --all" References: <200805061649.50105.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20080509122003.GA24290@caradoc.them.org> <20080511160001.GI28890@adacore.com> <200805191620.23279.pedro@codesourcery.com> <1211221182.3601.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080519182537.GA21992@caradoc.them.org> X-Yow: There's enough money here to buy 5000 cans of Noodle-Roni! Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20080519182537.GA21992@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Mon, 19 May 2008 14:25:37 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: 2008-05/txt/msg00576.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:19:42AM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote: >> What about "continue /all"? More in keeping with the >> argument syntax of existing gdb commands (print, examine...) > > So far there are only single letter specifiers, and they're all output > formats (print/x, disassemble/m). Adding multi-letter ones > would be pretty confusing, IMO. > > If we want functionality arguments, especially multi-letter ones, I > have a small preference for --all. IMHO the best fit in the current cli syntax would be a subcommand. Any ambiguity can be resolved the same way as `set variable'. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."