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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] Add maint set/show enable-threads
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 05:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pnob84lo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190518210010.27697-9-tom@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey	on Sat, 18 May 2019 15:00:10 -0600)

> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 15:00:10 -0600
> 
> This adds maint commands to control whether gdb is able to use
> threads.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog
> 2019-05-18  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
> 
> 	* NEWS: Add entry.
> 	* maint.c (_initialize_maint_cmds): Add "enable-threads" maint
> 	commands.
> 
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog
> 2019-05-18  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
> 
> 	* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document new maint
> 	commands.

Thanks.

> +maint set enable-threads
> +maint show enable-threads
> +  Control whether GDB can use threads.  The default is "on".

I'd suggest to say what will threads be used for.

> +  add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("enable-threads", class_maintenance,
> +			   &gdb::enable_threads, _("\
> +Set whether gdb can use multiple threads."), _("\
> +Show whether gdb can use multiple threads."), _("\
> +If enabled, gdb will use multiple threads when possible."),

maybe also here.

The documentation parts are OK with this nit fixed.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-22  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-18 21:00 [PATCH v2 0/8] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] Introduce run_on_main_thread Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] Introduce thread-safe way to handle SIGSEGV Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] Remove static buffer from ada_decode Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] Add maint set/show enable-threads Tom Tromey
2019-05-22  5:01   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-05-26 20:46     ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-27  2:32       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] Demangle minsyms in parallel Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] Defer minimal symbol name-setting Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] Add configure check for std::thread Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] Lock the demangled hash table Tom Tromey
2019-05-19 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-19 18:55   ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-21  0:35     ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-21  7:35     ` Andrew Burgess
2019-05-21 15:45       ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-21 16:21         ` Andrew Burgess
2019-05-31  2:48     ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-31 17:13       ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-09-29  0:35         ` [PATCH] Don't use the mutex for each symbol_set_names call Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-09-30 14:18           ` Tom Tromey
2019-09-30 16:55             ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-02 17:18               ` Tom Tromey
2019-10-02 18:20                 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-02 22:02                   ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-03 18:15                     ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Precompute hash value for symbol_set_names Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-03 18:15                     ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Don't use the mutex for each symbol_set_names call Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-09-30 21:45             ` [PATCH] " Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-01 17:02               ` Tom Tromey

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