Michael Shapiro wrote: >>On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:50:52PM -0700, Dan Mick wrote: >> >>>John Weekley wrote: >>> >>>>No, no errors at all. That's why I kept making the same mistake. >>>>'Nother bug? >>> >>>:b is a valid command (set a breakpoint at "."). >>>:bp, :bpr, :bprfqoiuer all appear to be accepted. That seems to be a >>>command-parsing bug. (the remaining characters are treated as an argument >>>to :b). >> >>I'm fairly sure this is an ADB-compatibility thing. Though it might make >>sense to change the behavior when not in compatibility mode. >> >>CCing mdb-discuss. >> >>Cheers, >>- jonathan > > > That was required for compatibility with adb(1). :bfoo means breakpoint > at foo because adb's "parser" only looked at one character after the colon. > Use ::bp with mdb and you'll get sensible behavior. I can't change the > behavior of :b because it would break legacy scripts.
Well, it at least seems like "prfqoiuer: symbol not found" should result from that last one...