Re: [RFA/RFC] New command: ``start''

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>]

> OK.  So this has the property that I was hoping for; it won't return a
> false positive for a non-Ada main program.

That's correct.

> This is fine with me.  Let's see if anyone else objects to it.
> 
> Since I don't know of any language other than Ada that will have a
> fallback for this, I don't think it's worth inventing a lot of
> machinery for it.  I'm not especially interested in allowing a language
> to be compiled out, either.

OK, here is a new patch for the "start" command. I don't need to modify
main_name() right now, so I left it out of this patch.

When Ada support is activated, then the next step will be to add the
new-executable notification, and add a call to the ada_main_name
routine in main_name(). I am attaching a patch to symtab.c for
illustration.

2004-05-20  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@gnat.com>

        * infcmd.c (kill_if_already_running): New function, extracted
        from run_command().
        (run_command): Replace extracted code by call to
        kill_if_already_running().
        (start_command): New function.
        (_initialize_infcmd): Add "start" command.

The documentation for this new command (which has been already approved
by Eli) is also attached, for easier reference.

2004-05-20  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@gnat.com>

        * gdb.texinfo (Starting): Document new start command.

Tested on x86-linux.

Thanks,
-- 
Joel
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