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...

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