From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14065 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2011 20:53:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 14057 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2011 20:53:00 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:52:54 +0000 Received: from mailhost2.vmware.com (mailhost2.vmware.com [10.16.67.167]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F208F59001; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com (promd-2s-dhcp138.eng.vmware.com [10.20.124.138]) by mailhost2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EE98EE00; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:52:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D55A1A4.5020208@vmware.com> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:53:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Alves CC: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [rfa] clean up output of "info set" command. References: <4D5599E8.6030408@vmware.com> <201102112042.45033.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <201102112042.45033.pedro@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 Pedro Alves wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2011 20:19:52, Michael Snyder wrote: >> "info set" is meant to show the state of all "set"-able >> debugger state variables, but it really executes each and >> every "show" command in alphabetical order. >> >> Several of these commands (notably "copying" and "warranty") >> have no corresponding "set" command, are not "set"-able, and >> produce a lot of output. Especially "show copying" which >> produces pages and pages of output. > > Isn't there a property of the command we could check > instead of hardcoding specific command names? I'm open to suggestions. The only property I can think of is that there is no corresponding entry in "setlist". I could search setlist every time... >> This patch excludes "copying", "warranty", and "version" from >> the output of "info set'. >