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Re: [RFC] usage of environment variable from the command line
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: denis.pilat@st.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:43:54 -0700
>>
>> For the other cases, this is bikesheddy of me, but why not simply
>> ${HOME}, braces required?
>
> Because it requires a change to the expression parser (at least in C)?
When I said, "For the other cases", I meant the cases other than
source-language expressions: filenames for commands like 'file' and
'cd', breakpoint locations like 'foo.c:12', and so on.