From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20198 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2002 19:31:51 -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 20191 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2002 19:31:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ns.aus.com) (66.127.241.71) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2002 19:31:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (rsharpe@localhost) by ns.aus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB8Jw1W18958; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:58:01 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: ns.aus.com: rsharpe owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 11:31:00 -0000 From: Richard Sharpe X-X-Sender: To: Doug Evans cc: , Subject: Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ... In-Reply-To: <200212081916.LAA24268@casey.transmeta.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00163.txt.bz2 On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Doug Evans wrote: > Andrew writes: > >> The loop works, but add-symbol-file seems to be called without the > >>> > >>> convenience variables being expanded. > >>> > >>> Have it got that right? > >>> > >>> If so, what would be the first step to get them expanded? > >> > >> add-symbol-file takes constants, not expressions - so variables are not > >> expanded. This should probably change but it's not clear how, given > >> the parser... > > > > A quick/dirty hack would be: > > > > eval ..... > > Can someone point me to threads on `eval'? > My poor eyes can't find one. I think that the intent was that someone implement eval. I can't find an existing one. Maybe my eyes are bad as well. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com