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Re: patch to add QNX NTO i386 support


On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:19:28PM +0100, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> >>Oh!  I was misunderstanding - I've never seen that particular syntax
> >>for run before, and if you ask me, it should be killed ASAP.  It's
> >>terribly confusing to ambiguously use the first argument as a program.
> >>
> >>Let me guess, it's the documented way to use GDB with target qnx?
> >
> >
> >Bingo.  And it's also the way our ide talks to gdb.  If the exec filename 
> >is
> >not set, gdb treats the first argument to run as the path to the file and
> >subsequent arguments as regular args.
> 
> I don't think that change would be accepted into GDB.  It makes `run' 
> just too modal :-/

That was my first reaction too.  But he's not describing a local change
to GDB - we already do this!  Argh!

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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