From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24811 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2012 20:35:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 24551 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2012 20:35:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:35:15 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0HKZBx6003648 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:35:11 -0500 Received: from host2.jankratochvil.net (ovpn-116-21.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.21]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0HKZ7gY017437 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:35:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:49:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Tom Tromey Cc: Eli Zaretskii , dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default Message-ID: <20120117203507.GA19670@host2.jankratochvil.net> References: <20120117095552.GA6141@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120117162621.GA3883@host2.jankratochvil.net> <837h0q5i4u.fsf@gnu.org> <20120117175957.GA9415@host2.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00647.txt.bz2 On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:28:29 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote: > I think gdb has touted this -- rightly -- as a feature. And, if > anything, I think we've gone even more in this direction in recent > years, what with pretty-printers and Python auto-loading. Furthermore, > I think this is a good trend in general; applications are getting more > complex, and this provides an important way to adapt the debugger to > them. In such case the `canned sequences of commands' should be bound to the binary, not to the directory. One (me) runs GDB for so many different executablse while staying in src/gdb/ . Thanks, Jan