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Re: [RFC] 09/10 Add "continue --all"


On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 16:20 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> A Sunday 11 May 2008 17:00:01, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > If you don't like the all prefix then we can go back to continue
> > > --all, or even just continue all.  Continue takes a numeric argument
> > > and all will not conflict.
> >
> 
> I hadn't proposed continue all, because we evaluate the integer
> as an expression, so that prevents the highly dubious
> valued form of using the contents of a variable named "all" in
> the inferior with "continue all".  

This is a very valid concern.  Can't have ambiguity.

What about "continue /all"?  More in keeping with the
argument syntax of existing gdb commands (print, examine...)



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