From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/RFC] new setting against auto-answer? (because "input not from terminal")
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081025020001.GD29998@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810250140.m9P1e1ho011456@tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
> > I propose a new "set/show interactive-mode (auto|on|off)" command
> > to allow the user to override what GDB detects. By default, GDB
> > still probes stdin and determines from there what mode should be
> > used. But if the user knows what he's doing, he can force it in
> > situations where GDB's default behavior is less useful.
>
> If the behavior of GDB on other OS's is OK, shouldn't this be a
> configuration parameter of some sort, preferably set automatically by
> configure?
I don't think it would be a good idea to make it a configure parameter.
If you freeze the setting to interactive mode at configure time, then
the debugger is stuck in that mode, even when stdin is a real pipe:
cat commands | gdb
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-25 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-25 1:05 Joel Brobecker
2008-10-25 1:41 ` Paul Hilfinger
2008-10-25 2:00 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-10-25 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-25 15:46 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-10-25 16:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-25 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-26 18:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-10-25 13:57 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-16 8:17 ` Joel Brobecker
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