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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Guillaume Leconte <guillaume.leconte@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] delete a range of display numbers
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vd0hvdls.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikgj9Pxw15Ryx=E=tkGqALaK+WOzrGykfrOggTY@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:36:18 +0100
> From: Guillaume Leconte <guillaume.leconte@gmail.com>
> 
> Notice that I've change the prototype of delete_display() in order
> to have a silent return in case of unknown number.  If you have set
> the display numbers 1, 2, 3 and 5, you can remove 2-5 without any
> error messages (number 4 is missing in the list).  As a consequence,
> you can also remove out of bound numbers, as in 'delete display 5-42'
> without having gdb complaining.

I think it's a convenient feature, but doing this silently may not be
a good idea.  How about displaying a note about this?  Something like

  (Ignored some display numbers.)

WDYT?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-18 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18  9:47 Guillaume Leconte
2011-02-18 10:30 ` Guillaume Leconte
2011-02-18 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-02-18 11:48   ` Guillaume Leconte
2011-02-18 12:17     ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-18 14:41       ` Guillaume Leconte
2011-02-18 15:14       ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-18 15:58         ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-18 16:48           ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-18 16:57             ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-18 17:41               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 17:54                 ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-18 17:54                   ` Michael Snyder
2011-02-18 18:06                     ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-14 21:24                       ` [patch+docs] make 'disable|enable display' also accept ranges (Re: [patch] delete a range of display numbers) Pedro Alves
2011-03-14 21:34                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 14:43                           ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-18 18:17                     ` [patch] delete a range of display numbers Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-18 17:52       ` Michael Snyder
2011-02-18 17:57         ` Pedro Alves
2011-02-18 17:44 ` Michael Snyder

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