Binary numbers starting with 0b

Hi,

A couple of months ago it was discussed to add a 0b in front
of binary numbers.

ht
tp://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-01/msg00327.html

I'm not sure what happened to this.  Was it decided
against?
Or maybe there was a backwards compatibility concern?  I
actually am a bit worried
about adding the 0b as not being backwards compatible,
although I do think it would
be a nice thing for GDB to accept.

Thanks

marc

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Marc Khouzam
Software Designer, Methods and Tools
Ericsson Canada Inc

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:17:44PM -0400, Marc Khouzam
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A couple of months ago it was discussed to add a 0b in
front of binary numbers.
> 
> ht
tp://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-01/msg00327.html
> 
> I'm not sure what happened to this.  Was it decided
against?
> Or maybe there was a backwards compatibility concern? 
I actually am a bit worried
> about adding the 0b as not being backwards compatible,
although I do think it would
> be a nice thing for GDB to accept.

No, there was no decision against it.  I still think it's a
good idea,
I just didn't have time to update the parsers.

I do not see any compatibility problems.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

 > A couple of months ago it was discussed to add a 0b in
front of binary
 > numbers.
 > 
 > ht
tp://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-01/msg00327.html
 > 
 > I'm not sure what happened to this.  Was it decided
against?

If approved, I could commit my change to printcmd.c which
would fix your
problem with variable objects.  However, I'm not planning on
going through
all the yacc parser files anytime soon.

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