From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021120163549.GA14036@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DDBB918.6090605@redhat.com>
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:32:24AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >The loop works, but add-symbol-file seems to be called without the
> >>convenience variables being expanded.
> >>
> >>Have it got that right?
> >>
> >>If so, what would be the first step to get them expanded?
> >
> >
> >add-symbol-file takes constants, not expressions - so variables are not
> >expanded. This should probably change but it's not clear how, given
> >the parser...
>
> A quick/dirty hack would be:
>
> eval .....
>
> similar to the SH equivalent. I suspect an eval will be needed anyway.
Honestly, I'd rather define the CLI grammar I've been talking about
than add any more quick hacks. That's a good 6.0 thing to do, clean up
our CLI a little...
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-20 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-20 0:48 Richard Sharpe
2002-11-20 6:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-20 8:32 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-20 8:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-11-20 9:28 ` Richard Sharpe
2002-11-20 10:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-20 21:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-05 16:52 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-12-08 11:36 ` Doug Evans
2002-12-08 12:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-08 12:52 ` Doug Evans
2002-12-08 11:16 ` Doug Evans
2002-12-08 11:31 ` Richard Sharpe
2002-12-08 12:08 ` eval [was Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...] Doug Evans
2002-12-06 8:30 Processing of convenience variables for scripts Richard Sharpe
2002-12-06 8:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-06 8:54 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-12-06 11:57 ` Richard Sharpe
2002-12-06 14:53 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-12-06 17:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-12-07 8:50 ` Richard Sharpe
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