From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
Cc: fnasser@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 12:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021208203043.GA17271@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212081936.LAA24307@casey.transmeta.com>
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:36:22AM -0800, Doug Evans wrote:
> Fernando writes:
> >>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >>
> >> In that case, in the short term, it would be worthwhile to implement
> >> eval. A simple version would just find any individual word that
> >> started with a $ and substitute variables, and end up with something
> >> like "eval add-symbol-file $name $addr".
> >
> > Seems useful to me, and probably not difficult to implement.
>
> add-symbol-file takes a file name as the first argument and
> you can't store strings (of any kind) in convenience variables.
>
> I haven't checked FSF sources in the last few months,
> maybe things have improved. If so great. If not, how would this work?
This is true. One problem at a time - numbers first. I have some
ideas, but I won't have a chance to work on this until next weekend.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-08 20:30 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
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 [this message]
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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