Re: [PATCH] Improve maint print symbols,psymbols,msymbols

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 04/20/2016 06:30 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> More old sandbox spring cleaning.
> 
> At the time I needed this, I used it a lot.

Thanks, I think this is quite useful and helpful.

> I've since also added msymbol improvements if only for consistency sake.
> It's helpful to have more control over what to print,
> and to have the output appear on the screen
> without having to go looking for it. Bleah.

Yeah...

No real comments on the patch itself.  Only a small
passer-by comment below.

> +      else if (strcmp (argv[i], "-source") == 0)
> +	{
> +	  if (argv[i + 1] == NULL)
> +	    error (_("Missing source file"));
> +	  source_arg = argv[++i];
> +	}
> +      else if (strcmp (argv[i], "-objfile") == 0)
> +	{
> +	  if (argv[i + 1] == NULL)
> +	    error (_("Missing objfile name"));
> +	  objfile_arg = argv[++i];
> +	}
> +      else if (argv[i][0] == '-')
> +	{
> +	  /* Future proofing: Don't allow OUTFILE to begin with "-".  */
> +	  error (_("Unknown option: %s"), argv[i]);
> +	}

We don't do this often, but it's usual for tools to
understand "--" as meaning end of "-" options.  I'd
instead do:

      else if (strcmp (argv[i], "--") == 0)
        {
          /* Explicit "--" marks end of options. */
          break;
        }
      else if (argv[i][0] == '-')
        error (_("Unknown option: %s"), argv[i]);
      else
        break;

So anyone wanting a filename that begins with "-" could still have it.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves