From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30830 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2007 07:17:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 30819 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Sep 2007 07:17:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (213.8.233.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:17:05 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-11-149.inter.net.il [80.230.11.149]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id IZS20800 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:16:45 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:17:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: jimb@codesourcery.com, denis.pilat@st.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20070930012955.GA29254@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:29:55 -0400) Subject: Re: [RFC] usage of environment variable from the command line Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <46F13F2A.8010507@st.com> <20070921225527.GA28500@caradoc.them.org> <20070922135839.GA6285@caradoc.them.org> <20070930012955.GA29254@caradoc.them.org> 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/msg00430.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:29:55 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , denis.pilat@st.com, > gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > Why not define ${...}, or something similar, to do textual expansion > before the language parsers get to it? Fine with me. > Yes, there's lots of quoting issues doing it this way. I'd want a > more formal specification of when this expansion happened and what it > produced before we did it. Right. Can you suggest such a specification?