Request: add a flag to get ddbg_gdb behavior
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Wed Apr 4 11:01:03 PDT 2007
Renaming the exe to get different behavior is a neat trick, and I know
it is relatively common in the Unix world. It makes sense there because
symlinks are rock solid. However, in Windows it means I have to make a
copy of the exe every time I upgrade ddbg. I'm not worried about the
tiny bit of disk space the extra copy uses, but just the annoyance
factor. Anyway, I see no real advantage to typing 'ddbg_gdb' vs 'ddbg
-gdb'.
I think there was also one person who accidentally re-named ddbg as
ddgb_dbg or something like that, and couldn't figure out why the
integration with Code::Blocks wasn't working. If that were a flag the
program could raise an error saying '-dbg is not a recognized flag'.
But it would be a bad idea to raise an error about the program name
itself not being what you expected.
--bb
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