Re: [PATCH] gdb: Introduce user-friendly namespace identifier for "info shared"

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:55:25 -0300
Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com> wrote:

> > My opinion is that we should suppress the NS column when there's
> > only one linker namespace.  
> 
> I can give this a shot, but in my head there are 2 ways of implementing it:
> 
> 1. If there is more than one linker namespace *active* when the command 
> is run;
> 2. If there is more than one linker namespace *registered* when the 
> command is run;
> 
> The main difference is: if the inferior has opened an SO in a namespace, 
> but has since closed it and everything loaded is in the default 
> namespace, should we still have the NS column? The first is closer to a 
> future plan of having an "active namespaces" convenience variable, while 
> the second is brand new code that I don't expect to use anywhere else, 
> but I can see an argument for it, so which do you prefer?

I prefer option 1, in which the NS column is shown when there is more than
one active namespace.

Kevin