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Re: User-defined commands - adding arguments, control structures

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From: Robert Bedichek
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:17
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In article <helgaas.714761661@convex.convex.com> helgaas@convex.com (Bjorn Helgaas) writes:
>It would be very useful if user-defined commands could take arguments
>and include loops and conditionals.  I may end up adding some of this
>functionality myself, but it looks like quite a lot of work, so I'm
>wondering whether anyone else is already working on it.
>
>Bjorn (helgaas@convex.com)

Tektronix did it to version 3.2 of gdb.  They added both arguments
and control mechanisms (if and while).  While you might not end up
using much of their code, you could take a look at it.  It is
in ~ftp/pub/g88.tar.Z on cs.washington.edu.  Look in the file
programmer.c.

	Robert Bedichek   robertb@cs.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: User-defined commands - adding arguments, control structures
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