From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29978 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2010 20:22:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 29969 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Dec 2010 20:22:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:22:07 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oB6KM3ZW031350 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:22:03 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oB6KM3mC030620; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:22:03 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oB6KM2wA020093; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:22:02 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5199A3780EF; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:22:02 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: dje@google.com (Doug Evans) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] main.c (captured_main): Alphabetically sort long_options. References: <20101206194128.989152461AD@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:22:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20101206194128.989152461AD@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> (Doug Evans's message of "Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:41:28 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2010-12/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans writes: Doug> fyi, I will check this in in two days if there are no objections. It is fine by me. Doug> A good next step would be update --help output, Doug> but I was going to wait until after this goes in. FWIW I think --help output is most useful when it is broken into sections, and then sorting is applied in each section. See "tar" or "automake" for reasonable examples. Tom