From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32654 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2007 17:11:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 32642 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Sep 2007 17:11:53 -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; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:11:48 +0000 Received: (qmail 24553 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2007 17:11:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 25 Sep 2007 17:11:46 -0000 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: denis.pilat@st.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] usage of environment variable from the command line References: <46F13F2A.8010507@st.com> <20070921225527.GA28500@caradoc.them.org> <20070922135839.GA6285@caradoc.them.org> From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:11:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:41:07 +0200") 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: 2007-09/txt/msg00357.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Cc: denis.pilat@st.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org >> From: Jim Blandy >> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:43:54 -0700 >> >> For the other cases, this is bikesheddy of me, but why not simply >> ${HOME}, braces required? > > Because it requires a change to the expression parser (at least in C)? When I said, "For the other cases", I meant the cases other than source-language expressions: filenames for commands like 'file' and 'cd', breakpoint locations like 'foo.c:12', and so on.