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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] print arrays with indexes
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050920193918.GB10186@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050920193339.GA28294@nevyn.them.org>

> I'm confused.  Wasn't Jim's point that he wanted "on for large arrays
> only, too ugly for small arrays"?  Which is the first.

That was the reason why I asked, because I sensed some disparity between
what people wanted. In my particular case, it doesn't matter, because I
will turn the feature on on a as-needed basis, so won't use the threshold.
However, the cases where I have needed it are when the array was too big
for me to do the counting... So Jim's point makes more sense to me too.

> It sounds like we have legitimate reasons for both thresholds.  I'm
> getting more inclined to implement neither for now, to prevent confusion.

This sounds good to me too. Perhaps a compromise between what Eli
suggested and what you have been suggesting would work. How about
we implement a on/off knob for now. Later on, if we understand better
in which direction to use the threshold, then we can enhance the knob
to include "auto", and then have a second knob.

As long as we cross-reference each setting in the help text, I think
users won't be confused.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-20 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-06 20:20 [RFC/RFA] " Joel Brobecker
2005-09-06 20:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-07  5:40   ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-07 13:23     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-07 20:24       ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-14 17:13         ` [RFA] " Joel Brobecker
2005-09-17 20:49           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-17 21:51             ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-17 22:07               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-18  3:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-18  3:46                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-18  5:41                   ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-18 19:08                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-18 19:19                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-18 20:05                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-20  7:31                           ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-20 19:18                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-20 19:31                               ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-20 19:33                                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-20 19:39                                   ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2005-09-21  3:44                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-22 16:47                                     ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-26  1:23                                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-27  1:04                                         ` Joel Brobecker
2005-10-02 22:42                                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-03  6:17                                             ` Joel Brobecker
2005-10-03 15:50                                               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-03 21:23                                                 ` Joel Brobecker
2005-10-04  7:02                                               ` Joel Brobecker
2005-10-04  7:41                                                 ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-21  3:44                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-18  8:53                 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-09-18 19:10                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-07 20:39       ` [RFC/RFA] " Jim Blandy
2005-09-07 21:41         ` Joel Brobecker
2005-09-09 19:14           ` Jim Blandy
2005-09-06 21:45 ` Jim Blandy

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