From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fernando Nasser To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Jason Molenda , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Tom Tromey Subject: Re: [RFA] Version 2 of patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 07:11:00 -0000 Message-id: <3BA8A6BB.5389763C@cygnus.com> References: <20010910003022.A21681@shell17.ba.best.com> <3B9CE0C6.5060700@cygnus.com> <20010910115244.A25119@shell17.ba.best.com> <3B9FACDA.6070407@cygnus.com> <20010916174433.A3258@shell17.ba.best.com> <3BA6DDFE.5080504@cygnus.com> <3BA7EB66.38CE7C83@cygnus.com> <3BA7ED24.1060908@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00247.html Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> Jason, should have thought of this earlier, sorry. Should this be > >> ``set/show maint profile-gdb''? ``set/show remote ...'' provides > >> cut/paste for implementing this. > >> > >> As far as I can tell it isn't possible to examine the value of profile-gdb. > >> > > > > > > It seems to be a general problem with "maint" things that are settings > > (instead of an action). > > > > We should eventually create a "set/show maint" thing similar to > > "set/show debug" (humm, what is the difference here?). > > I would leave it for a separate patch which would do it for all > > the maint related settings. > > If you're ok with ``set/show maint ...'' I can clone ``set/show remote > ...'' into what is needed. > I think it is a good idea. But we should leave the things that are currently set with the maint command marked as deprecated and with the appropriate message telling to use "set maint" instead. Also, I would like someone else to support us on this move: Tom? Jason? Eli? -- Fernando Nasser Red Hat - Toronto E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9