Re: add-symbol-file parsing

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

Mostly as a workaround for this...

Which would you prefer - changing add-symbol-file or a more general
eval command?  What would you think natural to evaluate - just
convenience variables?  Parsing expressions out of such a thing is hard
in the general case.  Hmm... we could allow (EXPR), i.e. require the
parentheses.

Honestly, rather than adding an eval command, I'd prefer to see $var
and (EXPR) accepted _everywhere_ the CLI looks for an integer.  Some
unified functions to parse command lines is all it would take.

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:02:14PM -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> We have been talking of an eval command in another thread that would also 
> solve this problem.
> 
> eval add-symbol-file /dir/symbol.file $text_addr
> 
> would cause
> 
> add-symbol-file /dir/symbol.file 0xdeadc0de
> 
> to be executed.
> 
> 
> Fernando
> 
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> Fernando Nasser
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> 
> Mark Santcroos wrote:> Hi Daniel,
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:29:39AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> >>The problem is, add-symbol-file takes more than a $text_addr.  It also
> >>takes a series of -s SECNAME $sec_addr.  We could:
> >>
> >>- split the command line at -s options and parse anything before the
> >>  next -s option as an expression, assuming people will not foolishly
> >>  use -s in their expression;
> >>- allow only convenience variables
> >>
> >>Option 2 may be the way to go... What do others think about allowing
> >>integer-or-convenience-variable there?
> >
> >
> >Option 2 would at least enable us to do everything. In the worst case you
> >would have to add another line to your macro that does the
> >expression-to-convinience-variable-translation.
> >
> >Please let me know if you don't have time and would prefer me to tackle
> >this.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Mark
> >
> 
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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