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Re: specifying gdb's exit code
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <alves dot ped at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Gutson <daniel dot gutson at tallertechnologies dot com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:49:49 -0600
- Subject: Re: specifying gdb's exit code
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Pedro> Would it be good if the online help and the manual agreed a bit
Pedro> more? The manual says "quit [expression]":
Yeah, I forgot it can be an expression.
What do you think of this?
Tom
diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
index bfcd975..0eff952 100644
--- a/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
+++ b/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c
@@ -1685,7 +1685,11 @@ strict == evaluate script according to filename extension, error if not supporte
show_script_ext_mode,
&setlist, &showlist);
- add_com ("quit", class_support, quit_command, _("Exit gdb."));
+ add_com ("quit", class_support, quit_command, _("\
+Exit gdb.\n\
+Usage: quit [EXPR]\n\
+The optional expression EXPR, if present, is evaluated and the result\n\
+used as gdb's exit code. The default is zero."));
c = add_com ("help", class_support, help_command,
_("Print list of commands."));
set_cmd_completer (c, command_completer);