[PATCH] Improve load command's help text

Luis Machado lgustavo@codesourcery.com
Fri Jan 6 18:31:00 GMT 2017


On 01/06/2017 12:29 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2017-01-06 11:41, Luis Machado wrote:
>> diff --git a/gdb/symfile.c b/gdb/symfile.c
>> index 61b9e5b..0af1900 100644
>> --- a/gdb/symfile.c
>> +++ b/gdb/symfile.c
>> @@ -3952,7 +3952,8 @@ that lies within the boundaries of this symbol
>> file in memory."),
>>    c = add_cmd ("load", class_files, load_command, _("\
>>  Dynamically load FILE into the running program, and record its
>> symbols\n\
>>  for access from GDB.\n\
>> -A load OFFSET may also be given."), &cmdlist);
>> +A load offset may also be given.\n\
>> +Usage: load [FILE] [offset expression]"), &cmdlist);
>
> For consistency, I think this would look better:
>
>   Usage: load [FILE] [OFFSET]
>
> The fact that offset can be an expression can be specified in the text
> just before.

That sounds good to me.

Thanks,
Luis



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