Re: [RFC] Let "gcore" command accept a suffix argument

Tom Tromey
2009-12-21T20:15:12Z

>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com> writes:

Stan> BTW, Pedro nudges me out of my stupor and reminds me that the
Stan> soon-to-be-posted tracepoint action to evaluate without collecting is
Stan> also called "eval" (it was originally proposed as "do" but that
Stan> ambiguates with "down", which seemed like a bad idea).

Stan> The two versions are not necessarily mutually exclusive - the
Stan> downloading at the start of a trace run gives us a chance to filter
Stan> out eval's that don't make sense for the target agent - but if we go
Stan> too afield on syntax (the tracepoint version is simply a
Stan> comma-separated list of GDB expressions), then that's going to be more
Stan> of a problem to reconcile.

"eval" seems awfully generic for a command which is specific to
tracepoints.

I'm not super familiar with tracepoints but a lot of the other commands
seem to start with "t". Why not "teval"?

Tom