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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Exit code of exited inferiors in -list-thread-groups
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhtcbl8e.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538CCF1F.5000902@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Mon, 02	Jun 2014 20:23:11 +0100")

Pedro> Sure, but that's not the point.  The point is that frontend might
Pedro> not be _parsing_ the number _at all_, but just presenting it as a
Pedro> string to the user as is (*).

It's unfortunate that we can even be in this situation.

I don't object to using octal.  I was unaware of the precedent.

However now it seems that it would be an improvement to document that
the exit code is emitted in octal.

Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-04 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-13 21:56 Simon Marchi
2014-05-14  2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-16 20:31 ` Tom Tromey
2014-05-21 17:34   ` Simon Marchi
2014-05-21 18:09     ` Pedro Alves
2014-05-23 18:57       ` Simon Marchi
2014-06-02 18:30       ` Simon Marchi
2014-06-02 18:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-02 19:23         ` Pedro Alves
2014-06-02 20:20           ` Simon Marchi
2014-06-03 15:27             ` Pedro Alves
2014-06-04 18:09           ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2014-09-29 21:43             ` Simon Marchi
2014-09-29 21:45               ` Simon Marchi
2014-09-30  2:36                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-01 14:26                   ` [PATCH v5][pushed] " Simon Marchi
2014-10-13  3:22                     ` Yao Qi

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