Re: [PATCH v2] gdb: add tutorial command

[Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>]

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Thanks for the review, I have made all the other changes you suggested!

On 1/23/26 4:11 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> +This means you can use it to prototype a solution without
>> +needing to recompile the inferior.  Try it by setting 'vec'
>> +to a sorted array, like by using:
>> +    print vec = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
>> +and see how the program would end, with the "continue"
>> +command again.
> Isn't it strange to teach newbies that to assign a value to a
> variable, one must use the 'print' command?  Why not "set variable"?

It is a bit strange, I suppose, but "set" (like "call") are not things I 
use personally, when print can do the same and is one fewer command to 
remember

And this doubles as a warning that if the user calls a function that has 
side-effects, those will also happen, and they aren't necessarily always 
desired by the user...

I can change it if you feel strongly that we should use "set" instead, 
but I find the side-effect explanation to be worth the unintuitiveness

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Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
It/she

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