Re: [RFA] More linespec quoting "fixes"

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

On 02/26/2010 03:02 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> My real question is whether we want to do this.  We've talked a little
> bit about rewriting linespec to be less horrible... will supporting more
> syntax make this too hard?  I'm open to breaking compatibility a bit --
> but I think there is a limit to what we can do there, based on what is
> documented.

I don't really have an answer for this. This is one of those areas where 
the documentation doesn't explain everything in detail.

In an ideal world, I would get rid of quoting entirely (or at least 
try), but that's a debate for another time. With this patch, I was 
simply attempting to address the issue that single quotes are not 
handled in the filename/"first half" of the linespec, and I could find 
no reason why they should not. [And if we keep quoting in linespecs, I 
cannot think why we would not allow any part of them to be quoted -- 
consider filenames with spaces (yich).]

In the end, I was attempting to rectify this behavior with CVS HEAD:

(gdb) list 'foo.c':1
No source file named foo.c'.

Keith