From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22558 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2014 18:09:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 22547 invoked by uid 89); 4 Jun 2014 18:09:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:09:09 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s54I96bN032544 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:09:06 -0400 Received: from barimba ([10.3.113.4]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s54I9516029532 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:09:05 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Pedro Alves Cc: Simon Marchi , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Exit code of exited inferiors in -list-thread-groups References: <1400018204-29559-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@ericsson.com> <87mweh31qi.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <537CE38B.7040000@ericsson.com> <537CEBCB.5020401@redhat.com> <538CC2CD.9040309@ericsson.com> <538CCF1F.5000902@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:09:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <538CCF1F.5000902@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Mon, 02 Jun 2014 20:23:11 +0100") Message-ID: <87lhtcbl8e.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00199.txt.bz2 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