Re: Q: porting call_debugger() to g++

[Mike Stump <mrs@wrs.com>]

> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:37:01 -0700
> From: Igor Markov <imarkov@cs.ucla.edu>

> Mike Stump wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:05:25 -0700
> > > From: Igor Markov <imarkov@cs.ucla.edu>
> > 
> > >    it's probably not a purely gcc question, but related.
> > 
> > This has about 0 to do with gcc.  If anything this is a UNIX question,
> > a /proc question, and OS question, or maybe even a gdb question.

>    Look, argv[0] is exactly the string I need.

Look, there is nothing about argv in gcc.  It is _not_ a compiler
issue.  It is a `how do I program' issue.  These issues are _not_ for
this list.  We are not here to help you program, or learn programming.

You can find answers to this issue in comp.lang.c, in the glibc or
newlib groups, and a variety of other places.

>    However, I cannot get it in a function.
>    How to pass this string around in a generic way has nothing
>    to do with /proc, the OS or gdb.

If you only knew what I knew, you would have understood why I said
what I did.  I was trying to point you in a clueful direction.  I am
sorry you didn't understand that or the general direction I was
pointing.

> > Please learn what this list is for, and restrict your questions to
> > things like the internal structure of gcc.
> > 
> > We aren't here to hand hold you and teach you programming.
>  
>     I would appreciate if people who are not trying to help
>     ignored this message, to save their own time.

While you may think that you can use this list for asking any
programming questions you want and in fact you may do that, doesn't
mean that you are right.  It is wrong of you to ask us to ignore your
messages. This is our list, we use it for specific purposes.  The way
in which you want to use this list isn't one of the ways in which we
want people to use it.