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| author | Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> | 2001-11-05 23:26:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> | 2001-11-05 23:26:09 +0000 |
| commit | 1c5dfdad97705b53aa4f92a58bf527da2448911b (patch) | |
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2001-11-05 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (info functions): Document use of backslash to
quote regexp chars in function names such as "operator*()".
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index dfde0f2..e7c1279 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2001-11-05 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com> + + * gdb.texinfo (info functions): Document use of backslash to + quote regexp chars in function names such as "operator*()". + 2001-11-01 Fred Fish <fnf@redhat.com> * gdbint.texinfo (SOLIB_ADD): Document additional new diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index bfa50a2..dec8be4 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -8290,7 +8290,9 @@ Print the names and data types of all defined functions whose names contain a match for regular expression @var{regexp}. Thus, @samp{info fun step} finds all functions whose names include @code{step}; @samp{info fun ^step} finds those whose names -start with @code{step}. +start with @code{step}. If a function name contains characters +that conflict with the regular expression language (eg. +@samp{operator*()}), they may be quoted with a backslash. @kindex info variables @item info variables |