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Re: naming command arguments


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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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