[PATCH 2/3] Use GNU style for metasyntactic variables in gdb

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Sun Sep 16 12:16:00 GMT 2018


>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> writes:

Simon> On 2018-09-14 10:55 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
>> I searched for other spots that did not use the GNU style for
>> metasyntactic syntactic variables.  This patch fixes most of the ones
>> I found in gdb proper.  There are a few remaining in MI, but I was
>> unsure whether those should be touched.

Simon> About MI, I don't see why it should be different.  Do you have specific
Simon> examples?

  if (argc < 1)
    error (_("USAGE: %s <BKPT> [<COMMAND> [<COMMAND>...]]"), command);

But there are several if you search for [<][a-z][a-z-]*[>]

Simon> I stumbled on some messages like this:
Simon>   error (_("-environment-cd: Usage DIRECTORY"));
Simon> That looks confusing to me, I would much prefer
Simon>   error (_("Usage: -environment-cd DIRECTORY"));

Agreed.  Which reminds me that my gdb CLI usage quest is also
incomplete.

Tom



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