Re: [PATCH] gdb: add load-libthread-db-quietly option

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 3/3/25 10:04 AM, Gregory Heytings wrote:
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>> People ask us to make it possible to turn this or that message on and off all the time.  The proposed command, "set load-libthread-db-quietly", is very specific to that use case.
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> 
> Indeed.
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>> Could we add perhaps a prefix command (or find an existing appropriate one) that would allow us to easily add more such knobs?  I'm thinking of something like (maybe not a good name, but just for the example):
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>>  (gdb) set message load-libthread-db on/off
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> 
> Would
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> set print load-libthread-db on/off
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> be better?
> 

I initially thought it wouldn't be a good idea because I thought that
"set/show print" only contained options regarding the "print" command,
which is not the same thing as printing or not printing messages.  But
it is used for tweaking messages already.  I see:

set print symbol-loading -- Set printing of symbol loading messages.
set print thread-events -- Set printing of thread events (such as thread start and exit).
set print inferior-events -- Set printing of inferior events (such as inferior start and exit).

So, unless there is a better place for this type of commands that I
don't know about, I think "set print" would be fine.

Simon