Re: [PATCH 2/3] Use GNU style for metasyntactic variables in gdb

[Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> writes:

Simon> On 2018-09-14 10:55 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
>> I searched for other spots that did not use the GNU style for
>> metasyntactic syntactic variables.  This patch fixes most of the ones
>> I found in gdb proper.  There are a few remaining in MI, but I was
>> unsure whether those should be touched.

Simon> LGTM.

Simon> Out of curiosity, is there a place in the GNU coding standard that explicitly
Simon> explains this?

Well, I thought so.  Maybe there was in the past and it was removed?

Or maybe it needs to be added, because it is definitely a GNU
convention.  You can see it in the --help of any GNU program.  Maybe
this is one of those things that François Pinard was planning to put in
the proposed Gnits manual that we never wrote.  I sent a note to
bug-standards.

Anyway I could only find a mention in the Texinfo manual, in the @var
node.

Tom