Hopefully my last request for 5.0 incorporation

[Andrew Cagney]

FYI,

I've applied the relevant patches to both the trunk and the 5.0 branch.

	Andrew

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 
> For sake of reference by the others I will repeat here what is being proposed.
> 
> 1) Have "i r" stand for "info reg".  This used to work before but the addition of a new (much less
> frequently used) info command that also starts with "r" ("info remote-process") made it ambiguous.
> 
> "i r" is so much used that I am in favor of adding this one.  As I heard nothing to the contrary I
> will add it to gdb5.
> 
> 2) Have "maint i" stand for "maint info".  This also worked before but the addition of "maint
> internal-error" it does not work anymore.
> 
> I am quite concerned about adding alias that are so short.  However, "i" is an alias for the "info"
> command, and this is a very strong argument in favor of making it an alias for "info" under
> "maintenance".  After all "maintenance" is just a prefix that help us separate our "internal use
> only" (TM) commands from the normal user commands.
> 
> So, in this one exceptional case, due to the long term acceptance of "i" as short for "info", I will
> incorporate it.
> 
> But please folks, no more cryptic abrevs pls. ;-)
> 
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