Re: [patch#2 3/6] set auto-load local-gdbinit warn-and-*

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 20:33:11 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > > +This feature is deprecated, please use @ref{objfile-gdb.rc file} instead;
> > 
> > "objfile" should be in @var, and it should explain what is "objfile".
> 
> Added:
> 
> This feature is deprecated, please use @ref{@var{objfile}-gdb.gdb file}
> instead.  The canned sequence of commands will be then specific for loaded
> @var{objfile}---typically the main executable---after converting an init file in
> the current directory into the @var{objfile}-gdb.gdb file..

Sorry, the @var inside @ref is wrong, please revert that part.

> > >  gdb-scripts:  Canned sequences of commands auto-loading is on.
> > >  libthread-db:  Inferior specific libthread_db auto-loading is on.
> > > -local-gdbinit:  Current directory .gdbinit script auto-loading is on.
> > > +local-gdbinit:  Current directory .gdbinit script auto-loading is yes.
> > 
> > Why "yes"?
> 
> parse_binary_operation accepts any of 'on', '1', 'yes' or 'enable' (and sure
> off/0/no/disable).  It then displays the boolean only as "on" and "off".

But this hunk changes "on" into "yes", which is not what you seem to
say will happen.  Did I understand correctly that GDB will print "on"?

> Somehow it seems more appropriate for these auto-loading settings to use
> yes/no instead of on/off.  This is also why I use yes/no in the documentation.
> When I added the warning option I had to choose only one pair, therefore
> I chose yes/no.  But this means the default displayed boolean values are new
> yes/no (and not on/off).  It also means it no longer accepts the alternative
> words on/1/enable (and off/0/disable); but that is not a real regression when
> the setting never existed before this patchset.
> 
> There are two possibilities:
>  * Introduce new option some "set local-gdbinit-warning <boolean>" as
>    suggested by Doug IIUC and technically keep everything boolean.
>  * Switch the words used in documentation from yes/no to on/off, therefore
>    also make the switch on/off/warn-and-on/warn-and-off.

Whatever we do, I think these options should behave consistently.