From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>,
Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: naming command arguments
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020729154519.GA7480@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D456220.30405@ges.redhat.com>
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:41:20AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >the source and line specification and:
> >>
> >> start:1
> >>
> >>the start:VALUE?
> >
> >
> >For this specific case, the command doesn't accept line specs.
> >Only integer expressions interpretted as addresses.
>
> What of start::foo? (I think I've got my C++ syntax right :-)
I think that we should actually come up with a unified command line
syntax, probably breaking compatibility with existing commands, and
implement it for 6.0. If we continue to add little hacks around this
the line parsing is just going to get worse and worse.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-29 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 17:14 Anthony Green
2002-07-25 16:23 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-25 17:48 ` Anthony Green
2002-07-26 15:02 ` Michael Snyder
2002-07-29 8:41 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-29 8:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-07-30 20:32 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-30 17:43 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-08-03 21:31 ` Anthony Green
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