From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7214 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2007 18:15:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 7190 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2007 18:15:56 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:15:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 6560 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2007 18:15:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 11 Jul 2007 18:15:53 -0000 To: Nick Roberts Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: $_ and info breakpoint [PATCH] References: <18064.7905.924535.720690@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070709115647.GC3095@caradoc.them.org> <18066.53564.134378.88590@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> From: Jim Blandy Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:15:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <18066.53564.134378.88590@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:22:20 +1200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00175.txt.bz2 Nick Roberts writes: > AFAICS the server prefix was written for use with annotations and front-ends. > This shouldn't affect existing use and we can put a caveat in the > documentaion in the manual: > > The convenience variable `$_' and the default > examining-address for the `x' command are set to the address of > the last breakpoint listed unless the command is prefixed with > 'server ' (see Command History). I have no warlord M-DEL patch, but I just wanted to point out that 'server' should be documented more clearly than it is.