specifying gdb's exit code
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Wed Apr 23 17:46:00 GMT 2014
On 04/23/2014 06:35 PM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote:
>
> On Apr 23, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would it be good if the online help and the manual agreed a bit
>> more? The manual says "quit [expression]":
>> To exit @value{GDBN}, use the @code{quit} command (abbreviated
>> @code{q}), or type an end-of-file character (usually @kbd{Ctrl-d}). If you
>> do not supply @var{expression}, @value{GDBN} will terminate normally;
>> otherwise it will terminate using the result of @var{expression} as the
>> error code.
>> @end table
>
> I think it should say “exit code” rather than “error code”. Whether a given expression value is the code for an error depends on the value and on the host OS.
Agreed. I'd even call that an obvious change to the manual.
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Pedro Alves
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