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Re: RFA: implement "watch -location"


On Thursday 12 August 2010 00:15:14 ext Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> writes:
> 
> Michael> Syntax quibble.  "-location"?  Don't we traditionally use
> Michael> command option syntax such as "print /x"?  Hate to be
> Michael> inconsistant...
> 
> I picked that because it is what Apple did.

Thanks for doing so.

From a debugger frontend's point of view it's nasty to have different
options for different versions of gdb requiring different code paths,
some of which can be only tested on specific platforms etc.

Andre'


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