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Re: source listing change
"Daniel Berlin+list.gdb-patches" wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
> Chris> I guess it is obvious in retrospect that anything which is
> Chris> using gdb as a back-end is not going to rely on 'list'. I
> Chris> guess I don't remember why this patch wasn't just added
> Chris> as-is sans option.
>
> In fact, it makes even less sense the more i think about it (no
> offense, i'm just thinking out in email. Parsing is a hobby of
> mine. Written two full C++ parsers. shiver.).
> because the format is still technically the same.
>
> %d ><random source line>\n
> vs
> %d <random source line>\n
>
> I can't imagine anyone designing a regex parsing the list output
> format that this would affect.
> ([0-9]+)" "([^\n]+) over each line would give you the line number, and
> the rest of the line (I think).
> It wouldn't be affected by this change.
> My point is, their is nothing i can think of that would make something
> think this list format is different than a normal source file which
> happened to start with > on a single line.
>
> Chris> cgf
So, it sounds to me like everyone seems to think that it's a good idea
and that it won't break anything.
--Chris
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Christopher Blizzard
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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over
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