Re: [PATCH] gdb: add load-libthread-db-quietly option

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 3/3/25 10:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 09:59:25 -0500
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
>>
>> People ask us to make it possible to turn this or that message on and
>> off all the time.  The proposed command, "set
>> load-libthread-db-quietly", is very specific to that use case.  Could we
>> add perhaps a prefix command (or find an existing appropriate one) that
>> would allow us to easily add more such knobs?  I'm thinking of something
>> like (maybe not a good name, but just for the example):
>>
>>   (gdb) set message load-libthread-db on/off
> 
> Sure, why not.  But we'd need some infrastructure for each command to
> be able to determine whether it was asked to be quiet, won't we?

I'm not saying we need special infrastructure in the code to handle
this, but just to regroup similar settings under the same prefix, to
keep them together and consistent.

Simon