Re: [RFC] embryo of type/main_type pretty_printing...

Tom Tromey
2010-01-05T23:12:23Z

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> I agree that checking it in would be useful. I just don't know where,
Joel> yet. Should we start a "contrib" directory? Or just in the gdb/ directory
Joel> itself if we consider this as port of the GDB sources?

Just in the gdb directory is fine by me.

Joel> I had also had questions about whether we want to enable this script
Joel> by default or not. For now, obviously not, since we really have not
Joel> finished discussing the output format (not to mention testing). But
Joel> this affects, IMO, the location where we want to store the script.
Joel> I was thinking about having the "make" install that script in the
Joel> build directory besides the gdb exe so that it gets automatically
Joel> used. Or perhaps we can use a different strategy of adding the source
Joel> path to one of the search paths that GDB uses... WDYT?

In the build tree we can have gdbinit.in refer to this code.

I would probably defer installing it for now, but either way is fine by
me.

Tom