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Re:Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015... by bennofs on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:56PM (#15000230)
Oh! That makes sense, thank you. It only raises the question though, does anyone really use hexadecimal line numbers? :)
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Re:Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015... by ithkuil on Sunday August 13, 2017 @04:14AM (#15002059)
Just a guess: if you have an expression language that lexes numbers in a few bases, then when parsing some commands you no longer know which base the number token was, all you know is that you got a number, and in case of the break command you interpret that as a line number unless prefixed with a * token
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