Re: [RFA-v3] win32-nat.c: Add dll names if debugevents is on

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:32:06AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>A Sunday 15 June 2008 23:53:30, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> I guess my basic question here is why is this needed at all?  Does
>> the non-windows version of gdb have something similar?  If so, this
>> should be patterned after that.  If not, why is Windows special?
>
>Well, with set "set verbose 1" you can see dll names being
>read in already, but you also get a lot more.  This is just a
>couple of lines to add some debug output.  Note that it
>can't be much patterned (without some extra hair) other than
>printing the so name, because the solib.c doesn't know a
>thing about each solib's struct lm_info implementation.  Then
>again, I only suggested to add the image base to the output
>because it was handy...  Anyway, I've already spent more time
>in this thread than it takes to add debug output locally
>every time I'd need it.  It's in Pierre's court to argue.  ;-)

Ok.  This is the kind of response I was looking for.

I'd like to have as little special case stuff in gdb as possible.  We
have been moving in that direction and that's good.

"set debugevents" is a special case behavior for Windows gdb.  I didn't
add it and I've wondered why it was necessary in the first place since I
don't recall ever feeling its lack on linux.

However, I guess I'll approve the patch since I can see why it would be
useful to have this information and it doesn't seem like there is
anything else that could be pressed into service in gdb-proper.

cgf