Re: [PATCH] Add support to control auto-display behavior

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:52:59PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 04:04:35 -0700
> > From: Christopher Layne <clayne@anodized.com>
> > 
> > This patch is to allow setting how auto-displays are affected when memory is
> > not accessible. It's very common to, when single-stepping, or stepping over,
> > initially setup some auto-displays and then begin stepping. I don't see
> > any reason why, in the event an object is not accessible, the auto-display
> > should be disabled.
> 
> Thanks.  I agree that it's a good idea to have an option to control
> this, unless we agree that what you want as an option should be how
> GDB behaves in all cases.

I think changing the behavior unconditionally would be a good idea.
Showing the error is more sensible; it's always bugged me that my
displays get turned off (and sometimes deleted instead of disabled - I
do not know why that happens).

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery