Re: [RFA, doc RFA] New option set use-deprecated-index-sections

Doug Evans
2012-07-19T16:28:03Z

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:33:03 +0200
>> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, eliz@gnu.org
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:33:42 +0200, dje@google.com wrote:
>> > + use "-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'".
>> [...]
>> > +`-iex \"set use-deprecated-index-sections on\"' to gdb."),
>>
>> It is more Eli's decision but I would find it overquoted.
>
> How about removing that sentence altogether? We have no reason to
> advertise -iex in that particular warning message.

I'd like to keep the content of the warning.
I realize it's just a performance issue if users don't get .gdb_index,
but in this case I think the current content of the warning is
justified.
It can't be that hard to come up with a simple way to be clear here. :-)

How about
"gdb -iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on' <program>"
or something along those lines?