Re: confusion in the `b' command

Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23T05:58:38Z

On 22 Apr 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>
> Eli> What version of GDB is that? Head? branch? released version?
>
> Latest cvs trunk gdb. (That was in my email, albeit buried a bit.)

Yes, it was buried, sorry for not paying attention.

It's probably a good idea to see if that isn't some regression due to
latest changes. I have several versions of GDB going back as far as
4.18, but unfortunately I have no gcj installed anywhere.

> >> * Second, that b 'x.main' would work anyway, since it is unambiguous.
>
> Eli> I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that GDB shouldn't have
> Eli> forced you to quote the string "x.main(java.lang.String[])"?
>
> I shouldn't even have to type `(java.lang.String[])' at all.
> `b x.main' is unambiguous. There is only one `main' method in the
> class `x'.

I think the punctuation characters prevent that. But it could also be a
bug or regression. One possible way to find out is to try this with
commands that complete only on symbols (`b' completes on ``locations'',
which could include file names and line numbers, so it's more complicated
and thus more bug-prone).

Sorry I can't do that myself, for the lack of gcj.