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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>,
	gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: naming command arguments
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D47437F.5020500@ges.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020729154519.GA7480@nevyn.them.org>

> 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.

We don't have much choice.  As they say, if it hurts it must be good for 
you....

It needs to be considered carefully though.

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-31  3:32 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
2002-07-30 20:32         ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-07-30 17:43 ` Fernando Nasser
2002-08-03 21:31   ` Anthony Green

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