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Re: [PATCH v5] Exit code of exited inferiors in -list-thread-groups
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:09:05 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Exit code of exited inferiors in -list-thread-groups
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Pedro> Sure, but that's not the point. The point is that frontend might
Pedro> not be _parsing_ the number _at all_, but just presenting it as a
Pedro> string to the user as is (*).
It's unfortunate that we can even be in this situation.
I don't object to using octal. I was unaware of the precedent.
However now it seems that it would be an improvement to document that
the exit code is emitted in octal.
Tom