Re: [PATCH 2/2] Tweak the handling of $GDBHISTSIZE edge cases [PR gdb/16999]

[Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> wrote:
> When GDB reads a nonsensical value for the GDBHISTSIZE environment
> variable, i.e. one that is non-numeric or negative, GDB then sets its
> history size to 0.  This behavior is annoying and also inconsistent
> with the behavior of bash.
>
> This patch makes the behavior of invalid GDBHISTSIZE consistent with how
> bash handles HISTSIZE.  When we encounter a null or out-of-range
> GDBHISTSIZE (outside of [0, INT_MAX]) we now set the history size to
> unlimited instead of 0.  When we encounter a non-numeric GDBHISTSIZE we
> do nothing.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
>         PR gdb/16999
>         * top.c (init_history): For null or out-of-range GDBHISTSIZE,
>         set history size to unlimited.  Ignore non-numeric GDBHISTSIZE.
>

Oops, this ChangeLog entry is not complete.  I will make sure to
complete it before pushing/re-posting.