From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23912 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2003 20:15:14 -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 23905 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 20:15:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2003 20:15:13 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C352B8F; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:15:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FA808CC.4030201@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:15:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: New "info auxv" command and $auxv variable? References: <3FA7D7C8.50609@redhat.com> <20031104165525.GA2599@nevyn.them.org> <3FA80508.6030601@redhat.com> <20031104200243.GA9441@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 > If we start making the CLI more usable by making this stuff available >> people might start using it :-) >> >> Anyway, the MI stuff is almost free (the code is common). The $auxv >> variable is a bit tricky but still ok. Could just add $entrypoint? > > > Oops, I misread you. The MI command is definitely a good idea - > "-info-auxv", right? Yep. > I think $entrypoint is more useful than $auxv. Should we have a > reserved namespace for these things? Ah, that. Ref: Replace $fp with $frame / $gdbframe / $gdb.frame http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=327 Never been a decision. $ variables are reserved for both builtins and registers but the two overlap. Ok, here's something warped: $.auxv (i.e., "dollar dot auxv" so you know I didn't make a typo :-) Andrew