Re: [RFA] Version 2 of patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command

Fernando Nasser
2001-09-19T09:29:00Z

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:07:55 -0400
> > From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>
> >
> > Also, I would like someone else to support us on this move: Tom? Jason? Eli?
>
> Sorry, I probably wasn't following this thread closely enough: what
> move did you have in mind?

We have some maint commands that actually set values. Either turn things
on/off or set control variables (for instance, name of a log file).
As these are just plain commands, there is no way to examine the current
settings.

Andrew has proposed creating a class of set/show commands "set/show maint"
to replace those. It would be used for instance to turn gdb self profiling
on/off. I proposed that we use the deprecate the existent maint commands that
currently set things directly and add the new "set/show maint" for them.

So, for maintenance we would have:

maint <action> [<args>]
set maint <control var> <value>
show maint [<control var>]

All these are introspective commands that will examine/affect gdb in order
to debug, test or even to understand it.

Anyway, it is a modification on the current "maintenance" interface, that is
why I asked for some support beyond the two of us.

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Fernando Nasser
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