From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22091 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2006 22:05:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 22081 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2006 22:05:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com (HELO e31.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.149) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:05:38 +0000 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k06M5Z4i019094 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:05:35 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id k06M7YA8176840 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:07:34 -0700 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k06M5Ysl008485 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:05:34 -0700 Received: from dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com (dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com [9.47.22.95]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k06M5XW9008466; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:05:34 -0700 From: Paul Gilliam Reply-To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com To: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: Return to Reverse Execution Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Michael Snyder , gdb@sources.redhat.com, Johan Rydberg , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Dave Brolley , Eric Bachalo References: <43BC376F.4000307@redhat.com> <200601061431.00536.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> <20060106215255.GA25427@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20060106215255.GA25427@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601061445.06318.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 On Friday 06 January 2006 13:52, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:31:00PM -0800, Paul Gilliam wrote: > > My $0.02: > > > > On Friday 06 January 2006 11:57, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote: > > > > So here is my proposed gdb user interface. > > > > 1) A set of new commands that mimic the existing ones, > > > > to include: > > > > reverse-step (rs) > > > > reverse-next (rn) > > > > reverse-continue (rc) > > > > reverse-finish (rf) > > > > > > I'm fine with these names. I think that we are not going to reach a > > > consensus on whether "reverse" or "back" is better, but I don't think that > > > means we should offer both; I think we should just pick one, use it > > > consistently, and document it consistently. > > > > > 'back' has 57% fewer keystrokes than 'reverse'. > > I intend to use the two-character variants all the time in practice... > In that case, I guess 'rs' is bettern than 'bs'.... I get enough of that as it is 8-)