Re: [RFA] Remote UDP support

Andrew Cagney
2002-05-09T22:27:04Z

> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:18:02PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>> >Andrew, would you be satisfied with a warning in the manual and a
>> >warning in 'help target remote'?
>
>>
>> No. I think it need to be in the users face. I don't think GDB should
>> silently let the user to use a broken mechanism.
>
>
> I really don't agree, but your call. Could I at least persuade you
> down to a one-line warning and no confirmation query?
>
> Requiring a separate confirmation just seems like a bad interface
> decision.

It is relative. Adding a feature to GDB that will make GDB unreliable
and then failing to alert the user of the consequences is, I think, a
worse decision. The user is no longer able to depend on the debuger -
something critically important for someone debugging an embedded
application.

Can you please update the patch to include a mechanism for querying the
user (just the first time) to confirm that they know and understand that
the mechanism is unreliable (including a brief statement of known
failure states).

enjoy,
Andrew