From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>,
"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Let "gcore" command accept a suffix argument
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1428F0.7090608@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091130190619.GJ4034@adacore.com>
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Would it be able to include the incr? "eval gcore foo.$a++"?
>
> I do not think so, not as suggested by Tom, I believe. The suggestion
> is to expand convenience variables, not evaluate full-fledged
> expressions. The issue with full-fledged expressions is that you have
> to recognize them and find where they start and end. But I think that
> this would not be a serious limitation in practice, since the above
> can be rewritten as:
>
> eval gcore foo.$a
> set $a = $a + 1
Well, that would suit me OK, so long as somebody else
implements it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-30 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-30 13:39 Michael Snyder
2009-11-30 16:22 ` Hui Zhu
2009-11-30 17:04 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-11-30 18:53 ` Tom Tromey
2009-11-30 19:06 ` Michael Snyder
2009-11-30 20:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-11-30 20:25 ` Michael Snyder
2009-11-30 20:31 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-11-30 20:46 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2009-12-10 2:28 ` Hui Zhu
2009-11-30 18:44 ` Tom Tromey
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