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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!
Yes, arrrg!  Bug!

Andrew



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