From: Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova <ahajkova@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] gdb: improve show text and help text for 'remote exec-file'
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:56:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJVr-EMCw2g9xTBWDmWR4JgPDkpc_i365ZdknUBhcAYFt=f5og@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 5:56 PM Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <
gdb-patches@sourceware.org> wrote:
> The current behaviour for 'show remote exec-file' is this:
>
> (gdb) show remote exec-file
>
> (gdb) set remote exec-file /abc
> (gdb) show remote exec-file
> /abc
> (gdb)
>
> The first output, the blank line, is just GDB showing the default
> empty value.
>
> This output is not really inline with GDB's more full sentence style
> output, so in this commit I've updated things, the output is now:
>
> (gdb) show remote exec-file
> The remote exec-file is unset, the default remote executable will be
> used.
> (gdb) set remote exec-file /abc
> (gdb) show remote exec-file
> The remote exec-file is "/abc".
> (gdb)
>
> Which I think is more helpful to the user.
>
> I have also updated the help text for this setting. Previously we had
> a set/show header line, but no body text, now we have:
>
> (gdb) help show remote exec-file
> Show the remote pathname for starting inferiors.
> This is the path, on the remote target, used when starting an inferior,
> for example with the "run", "start", or "starti" commands.
> This setting is only useful when debugging a remote target, otherwise,
> this setting is not used.
> (gdb)
>
> Which is hopefully more helpful.
>
>
I really like the change in behaviour. Showing the blank line for the
default remote exec-file is confusing. The more verbose help is also much
more informative. I think more verbose is almost always better.
I can confirm this change causes no regressions on ppc64le Fedora-Rawhide.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-24 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-16 15:54 [PATCH 00/10] Improve GDB/gdbserver experience when using a local gdbserver Andrew Burgess
2023-08-16 15:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] gdb: have remote_target::extended_remote_run take the exec filename Andrew Burgess
2023-08-23 9:30 ` Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova
2023-08-16 15:54 ` [PATCH 02/10] gdb: improve how 'remote exec-file' is stored and accessed Andrew Burgess
2023-08-23 8:44 ` Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova
2023-08-16 15:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] gdb: improve show text and help text for 'remote exec-file' Andrew Burgess
2023-08-23 11:36 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-08-24 8:56 ` Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova [this message]
2023-08-16 15:55 ` [PATCH 04/10] gdb/gdbserver: add new qDefaultExecAndArgs packet Andrew Burgess
2023-08-16 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-28 15:35 ` Tom Tromey
2023-08-16 15:55 ` [PATCH 05/10] gdb: detect when gdbserver has no default executable set Andrew Burgess
2023-08-16 15:55 ` [PATCH 06/10] gdb: make use of is_target_filename Andrew Burgess
2023-08-23 13:35 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-08-16 15:55 ` [PATCH 07/10] gdb: add qMachineId packet Andrew Burgess
2023-08-16 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-25 14:49 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-26 14:42 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-09-29 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-22 2:39 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-08-23 9:24 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-08-23 11:36 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-08-28 16:06 ` Tom Tromey
2023-08-16 15:55 ` [PATCH 08/10] gdb: remote filesystem can be local to GDB in some cases Andrew Burgess
2023-08-16 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-16 15:55 ` [PATCH 09/10] gdb: use exec_file with remote targets when possible Andrew Burgess
2023-08-16 15:55 ` [PATCH 10/10] gdb: remote the get_remote_exec_file function Andrew Burgess
2023-08-23 13:42 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-08-22 10:41 ` [PATCH 00/10] Improve GDB/gdbserver experience when using a local gdbserver Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova
2023-08-23 14:32 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-08-23 15:26 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 " Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 01/10] gdb: have remote_target::extended_remote_run take the exec filename Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 02/10] gdb: improve how 'remote exec-file' is stored and accessed Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 03/10] gdb: improve show text and help text for 'remote exec-file' Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 04/10] gdb/gdbserver: add new qDefaultExecAndArgs packet Andrew Burgess
2023-08-26 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 05/10] gdb: detect when gdbserver has no default executable set Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 06/10] gdb: make use of is_target_filename Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 07/10] gdb: add qMachineId packet Andrew Burgess
2023-08-26 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 08/10] gdb: remote filesystem can be local to GDB in some cases Andrew Burgess
2023-08-26 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 09/10] gdb: use exec_file with remote targets when possible Andrew Burgess
2023-08-25 15:34 ` [PATCHv2 10/10] gdb: remove the get_remote_exec_file function Andrew Burgess
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