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Re: [RFC] Let "gcore" command accept a suffix argument


Tom Tromey wrote:
"Stan" == Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com> writes:

Stan> BTW, Pedro nudges me out of my stupor and reminds me that the Stan> soon-to-be-posted tracepoint action to evaluate without collecting is Stan> also called "eval" (it was originally proposed as "do" but that Stan> ambiguates with "down", which seemed like a bad idea).

Stan> The two versions are not necessarily mutually exclusive - the
Stan> downloading at the start of a trace run gives us a chance to filter
Stan> out eval's that don't make sense for the target agent - but if we go
Stan> too afield on syntax (the tracepoint version is simply a
Stan> comma-separated list of GDB expressions), then that's going to be more
Stan> of a problem to reconcile.

"eval" seems awfully generic for a command which is specific to
tracepoints.
I'm not super familiar with tracepoints but a lot of the other commands
seem to start with "t". Why not "teval"?
That's a good idea. If we ever come up with a Grand Unified Semantics of actions and commands for which generic "eval" matches tracepoint "teval", we can simply alias the two.

Stan


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