Re: [RFA] Version 2 of patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>]

On Sep 19, 12:26pm, Fernando Nasser wrote:

> Andrew has proposed creating a class of set/show commands "set/show maint"
> to replace those.  It would be used for instance to turn gdb self profiling
> on/off.  I proposed that we use the deprecate the existent maint commands that
> currently set things directly and add the new "set/show maint" for them.
> 
> So, for maintenance we would have:
> 
> maint <action> [<args>]
> set maint <control var> <value>
> show maint [<control var>]
> 
> All these are introspective commands that will examine/affect gdb in order
> to debug, test or even to understand it.
> 
> Anyway, it is a modification on the current "maintenance" interface, that is
> why I asked for some support beyond the two of us.

I like having the maintenance commands all lumped under "maint".  That
way I can use tab completion to see all of the maintenance related commands
when I do

    (gdb) maint <TAB>

I think a set/show would be useful for some activities; couldn't
we add "maint set ..." and "maint show ..."  ?

Kevin