Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] gdb/cli: add '.' as an argument for 'list' command

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:24:09 +0200
> From: Bruno Larsen via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> Currently, after the user has used the list command once, there is no
> self-contained way to ask GDB to print the location where the inferior is
> stopped.  The current best options require either using a separate
> command to scope out where the inferior is stopped, or using "list *$pc"
> requiring knowledge of GDB standard registers.  This commit adds a way
> to do that using '.' as a new argument for the 'list' command.  If the
> inferior isn't running, the command prints around the main function.
> 
> Because this necessitated having the inferior running and the test was
> (seemingly unnecessarily) using printf in a non-essential way and it
> would make the resulting log harder to read for no benefit, it was
> replaced by a differen t statement.
> ---
>  gdb/NEWS                        |  4 ++++
>  gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c              | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo             |  5 +++++
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/list.exp | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/list1.c  |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

The documentation parts are okay, thanks.

Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>