$argc variable

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:08:34PM +0000, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There was a proposal here:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2005-04/msg00055.html
> 
> Has anything come of it? I can't find anything in cli-script.c.
> 
> This is a feature I would very much like to see. SuperH/ST has had a 
> very similar feature for quite some time now (long before the above 
> proposal) in which $argc is a proper convenience variable.
> 
> I would submit our version, but I feel that the above is a better 
> approach (implementation details aside) - it does not suffer from 
> problems with recursion.
> 
> Is there any chance of resurrecting this idea?

It's still in the review queue.  I didn't like the implementation, but
I haven't had time to come up with a better one.  If you feel like
helping...  You'll notice no one else responded at the time when I
asked for comments.

In general I don't like new additions to the CLI.  But it seems like
real scripting is still at least one major release away, so I am
open to suggestions.  Let's do it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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