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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 02:52:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] -iex and -ix: Execute them _after_ gdbinits
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> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:31:49 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:14:15 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > My concern is about what happens before ~/.gdbinit is loaded, so
> > nothing that happens after that can resolve that.
> 
> I do not understand which command would you want to run before ~/.gdbinit.
> Real world ~/.gdbinit should only change settings or define new commands.

GDB has a gazillion settings, so this still includes a lot of
possibilities.

> > > I have not found a use case where the current behavior is better.
> > 
> > It doesn't have to be better.  It has the advantage of being there
> > first.  It's the new behavior that must have a significant advantage
> > to justify an incompatible change of behavior.
> 
> The idea is that this is not a "change" as 7.4 did not have -iex at all.

That doesn't matter much nowadays, as people use development snapshots
all the time.