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Re: exact meaning of restart
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: exact meaning of restart
- From: Quality Quorum <qqi at world dot std dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:38:42 -0500 (EST)
- cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> My opinion on this is that the extended operator ``!'' should go away.
> Having one command alter the semantics of several others isn't right.
IMHO, it is inevitable: we have gorups of commands which do not have
sense separate from each other.
> The relevant commands, and remote.c's use of them should be tightend to
> the point that the operator is no longer needed.
'!' does just two things allows 'restart' and changes semantics of kill
in some cases - it does not seem like a big problem too me and
funtionality is valuable in my view. I would not have as separate
tharget though.
>
> Andrew
>
Thanks,
Aleksey