From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8634 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2002 16:36:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8596 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2002 16:36:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2002 16:36:02 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18EZhu-0005Kh-00; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:36:15 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18EXpO-0003hM-00; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:35:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:36:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Richard Sharpe , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ... Message-ID: <20021120163549.GA14036@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Richard Sharpe , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20021120141310.GA4546@nevyn.them.org> <3DDBB918.6090605@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DDBB918.6090605@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 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