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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: convenience variables in "target remote"
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051110134340.GA21648@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dkv7eq$v86$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:29:46PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> it looks like "target remote" command does not handle convenience variables
> properly:
> 
>    (gdb) set $var=1234
>    (gdb) target remote :$var
>    :$var: Connection refused.
>    (gdb) target remote :1234
>    Remote debugging using :1234
> 
> When $var is used, it's not expanded, at gdb tries to connect to the wrong
> port? 
> 
> Is this by design, or a bug?

Convenience variables are expanded in roughly the same places that the
(C) expression evaluator is used to parse expressions.  Most places
that take a number do not support them; that's by design, the full
range of expressions are not supported for ports.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-10 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-10 10:33 Vladimir Prus
2005-11-10 13:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-11-10 14:03   ` Vladimir Prus
2005-11-10 16:17     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-10 19:32     ` Eli Zaretskii

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