Re: [RFC] syntax change for "record save"

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > This proposal follows from Teawater's thread
> > "A question about gdb script", in which Teawater
> > wants to know how to use a gdb local variable
> > to append a sequence number to the file name
> > of a record log file.
>
> This is not an objection, but I am really not fond of that extension.
> It feels ad hoc that the extension, if provided, should be evaluated
> as an integer. What if the user wanted a more general scheme? Or what
> if he wanted to the suffix to be in hex?

Replying here before starting a new thread...

Well, nobody asked for it to be more general.
Whereas, I think this is not the first time I have
heard a request for this sort of functionality.
Could be the last request was regarding the 'gcore'
command, or maybe something else (set logging file?).

Now I'll start a new thread.  ;-)