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Re: [PATCH, doc RFA]: Fix pr 14236
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:48:22 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, doc RFA]: Fix pr 14236
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:05:16 -0700
>
> This patch is a proposed(!) fix to bug 14236.
> The problem here is that the "interrupt" command (figuratively speaking)
> takes an implicit & as an argument (it is always asynchronous) and
> users aren't expecting this.
>
> This patch fixes the problem by changing the behaviour by making
> "interrupt" synchronous by default and supporting a new option &,
> to be consistent with every other gdb command (which is what I think
> every user would expect, including this user).
The documentation changes are OK.
Thanks.