Re: [RFA] Remote UDP support

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:18:02PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>> >Andrew, would you be satisfied with a warning in the manual and a
>> >warning in 'help target remote'?
> 
>> 
>> No.  I think it need to be in the users face.  I don't think GDB should 
>> silently let the user to use a broken mechanism.
> 
> 
> I really don't agree, but your call.  Could I at least persuade you
> down to a one-line warning and no confirmation query?
> 
> Requiring a separate confirmation just seems like a bad interface
> decision.

It is relative.  Adding a feature to GDB that will make GDB unreliable 
and then failing to alert the user of the consequences is, I think, a 
worse decision.  The user is no longer able to depend on the debuger - 
something critically important for someone debugging an embedded 
application.

Can you please update the patch to include a mechanism for querying the 
user (just the first time) to confirm that they know and understand that 
the mechanism is unreliable (including a brief statement of known 
failure states).

enjoy,
Andrew