A little history. When using --annotations, gdb did not print the source code to the gdb console window. When using mi with new-ui it does. When I reported this in the past, several people said it was a feature that gdb printed the source code lines to the console.

I've had several users of cgdb say they do not want gdb to print the source code to the gdb console window as they can see the code in the code view.

I've created and attached a patch that I hope makes it optional to have gdb print the source code to the gdb console window. Could I have some feedback?

I've added a new print source option to control printing source code to the gdb console.

(gdb) show print source
Printing of source code to gdb console is on.

You can turn the printing of the source code off as follows.

(gdb) set print source off
(gdb)

When the printing of source code is on,

(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/bob/rcs/git/gdb/gdb-build/main

....

Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe0c8) at test_main.cpp:42
42      {
(gdb) n
43          int i = 3;
(gdb) n
44          int j = 4;
(gdb) n
47          long_func();

When the printing of source code is off,

(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/bob/rcs/git/gdb/gdb-build/main
...
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe098) at test_main.cpp:42
(gdb) n
(gdb) n
(gdb) n
(gdb)

I don't know gdb code well enough to understand if i've disabled functionality

beyond what i was hoping to.

I'm not sure how to control this from cgdb when using old versions of gdb.

I get the following error when i run --ex "set print source off" when starting gdb.

Undefined set print command: "source off".  Try "help set print".

Thanks,

Bob Rossi