Re: [PATCH 5/7] range stepping: New command 'maint set range stepping'

Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-18T03:45:54Z

> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:08:37 +0800
> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> On 03/12/2013 01:04 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> +@kindex maint set range-stepping
> >> >+@kindex maint show range-stepping
> >> >+@cindex range-stepping
> >> >+@item maint set range-stepping
> >> >+@itemx maint show range-stepping
> >> >+Control whether to do stepping in an address range.
> > Why is this a maintenance command?
>
> Don't have any special reasons to do this. The range stepping should be
> always on if target supports, and it can be turned off for some
> "maintenance purpose", so I set this command as a maintenance command.

What would be the possible reasons to turn this feature off?

Once we have the reasons, we could try thinking whether or not they
are limited to GDB maintenance.