From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Adding startup files to GDB
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:45:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210111164524.GI1175365@embecosm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blgu13v4.fsf@tromey.com>
* Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> [2020-10-22 13:02:07 -0600]:
> Andrew> Patch #4 adds the startup file support. Compared to Tom's original work:
> Andrew> (a) there's no auto saving of startup options,
>
> Andrew> (b) there's command line flag support for passing startup options
> Andrew> to GDB.
>
> Andrew> (c) there's support for a home directory and current working
> Andrew> directory startup file (only because this is basically free
> Andrew> given the restructuring of the code).
>
> Andrew> Patch #5 adds back the auto-save feature from Tom's series, however, I
> Andrew> have this off by default. I (personally) dislike the auto-save
> Andrew> feature, though I can see why some users might want it. I hope the
> Andrew> proposal I have here is might be a good middle ground.
>
> Could you say why you dislike it?
>
> The reason I did it the way I did is that I thought it was strange to
> have a command like "set startup-blah-blah off" that would be useless to
> use in a running gdb. It seemed to me that the name & intended use of
> the command implied auto-saving.
>
> Regardless of the choice here, I don't think it makes sense to have
> another option to control whether the first options are auto-saved.
> This is "feature to enable a feature" territory for me.
Tom,
I don't really understand how "feature to enable a feature" is
different from lots of the other features in GDB that have a feature
(setting) to enable them.
Are you just suggesting that auto-save should be on by default? If it
was on by default, but could be turned off with a setting, would this
be more acceptable to you?
Thanks,
Andrew
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-07 20:05 Andrew Burgess
2020-10-07 20:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] Add get_standard_config_dir function Andrew Burgess
2020-10-07 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] gdb: use get_standard_config_dir when looking for .gdbinit Andrew Burgess
2020-10-08 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-02 10:20 ` Andrew Burgess
2020-10-22 19:07 ` Tom Tromey
2020-11-09 13:52 ` Tom Tromey
2020-11-09 13:55 ` Tom Tromey
2020-10-07 20:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] gdb: new function to wrap up executing command line scripts/commands Andrew Burgess
2020-10-08 15:25 ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2020-11-02 9:48 ` Andrew Burgess
2020-10-22 19:08 ` Tom Tromey
2020-10-07 20:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] gdb: process startup files and startup command line options Andrew Burgess
2020-10-08 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-07 20:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] gdb: add mechanism to auto-save startup options Andrew Burgess
2020-10-08 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-07 20:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] Let the user control the startup style Andrew Burgess
2020-10-08 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-07 20:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] Add "set startup-quietly" Andrew Burgess
2020-10-08 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-08 6:56 ` [PATCH 0/7] Adding startup files to GDB Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 19:02 ` Tom Tromey
2020-10-28 15:29 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-11 16:45 ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
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