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Re: specifying gdb's exit code
- From: <Paul_Koning at Dell dot com>
- To: <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <alves dot ped at gmail dot com>, <daniel dot gutson at tallertechnologies dot com>, <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:17:13 +0000
- Subject: Re: specifying gdb's exit code
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On Apr 23, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> Pedro> Would it be good if the online help and the manual agreed a bit
> Pedro> more? The manual says "quit [expression]":
>
> Yeah, I forgot it can be an expression.
>
> What do you think of this?
>
> Tom
>
> diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
> index bfcd975..0eff952 100644
> --- a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
> +++ b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
> @@ -1685,7 +1685,11 @@ strict == evaluate script according to filename extension, error if not supporte
> show_script_ext_mode,
> &setlist, &showlist);
>
> - add_com ("quit", class_support, quit_command, _("Exit gdb."));
> + add_com ("quit", class_support, quit_command, _("\
> +Exit gdb.\n\
> +Usage: quit [EXPR]\n\
> +The optional expression EXPR, if present, is evaluated and the result\n\
> +used as gdb's exit code. The default is zero."));
> c = add_com ("help", class_support, help_command,
> _("Print list of commands."));
> set_cmd_completer (c, command_completer);
Is the default actually zero? The help that Pedro quoted says that the default is successful exit. On Unix, that’s zero, but on VMS, it’s one.
paul