Re: [mi] -list-features

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:05:37 +0400
> Cc: drow@false.org,
>  gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> How about this:
> 
>         -list-features
>                 Returns a list of particular features of the MI protocol that
>                 this version of gdb implements.  A feature can be a command,
>                 or a new field in an output of some command, or even an
>                 important bugfix.  While a frontend can sometimes detect presence
>                 of a feature at runtime, it is easier to perform detection at debugger
>                 startup. 
> 
> 		The command returns a list of strings, with each string naming an
> 		available feature. Each returned string is just a name, it does not
> 		have any internal structure. The list of possible feature names 
> 		is given below.

It is still ambiguous, because "a list of string" does not tell the
whole story.  Is it

    foo bar baz
or
    "foo" "bar" "baz"
or
    foo,bar,baz
or
    {foo,bar,baz}
or
    ...

You get the story.

I think an example will go a long way towards disambiguating this.

Thanks.