Re: [PATCH 5/5] gdb: make deprecated_show_value_hack static

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

>> FWIW I wouldn't mind if we removed nearly all "show" functions and just
>> made some variant of deprecated_show_value_hack the standard way to
>> print things.  Instead of munging the help text (which is
>> i18n-unfriendly) it could just print the option name:
>> 
>> (gdb) show mumble var
>> Current setting of "mumble variable": 23

Andrew> I have a branch which I occasionally work on which is filling in all the
Andrew> missing show functions -- which is the opposite to what you are
Andrew> suggesting.

Forgot to reply to this when you first sent it.

For me the attraction of removing these is that it simplifies things --
less code, less to get wrong.  Maybe it would require us to also
regularize & automate the "auto means xyz in this context" concept, but
that would also be beneficial (I think there's a bug in the Python
component about this).  I also don't really mind having a "computer-ish"
output format here, as opposed to natural language text.

However if you want to do it the other way, that's also fine.

Tom