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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA, doc RFA] New option set use-deprecated-index-sections
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22R2x0GfA2XnpFmtNoBjfo9ChDmq1ZHgb9hQG1+rDS9JNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83liif91io.fsf@gnu.org>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:33:03 +0200
>> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, eliz@gnu.org
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:33:42 +0200, dje@google.com wrote:
>> > +  use "-iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on'".
>> [...]
>> > +`-iex \"set use-deprecated-index-sections on\"' to gdb."),
>>
>> It is more Eli's decision but I would find it overquoted.
>
> How about removing that sentence altogether?  We have no reason to
> advertise -iex in that particular warning message.

I'd like to keep the content of the warning.
I realize it's just a performance issue if users don't get .gdb_index,
but in this case I think the current content of the warning is
justified.
It can't be that hard to come up with a simple way to be clear here. :-)

How about
"gdb -iex 'set use-deprecated-index-sections on' <program>"
or something along those lines?


  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-19 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17 21:24 dje
2012-07-17 21:43 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-17 22:10   ` Doug Evans
2012-07-18 22:34   ` dje
2012-07-18 23:33     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-18 23:53       ` dje
2012-07-19  7:03         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-19 16:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-19 16:28         ` Doug Evans [this message]
2012-07-19 16:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-19 18:26             ` dje
2012-07-19 19:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-20 18:01                 ` dje
2012-07-25 14:33                   ` [patch] testsuite: Fix gdb.mi/* regression on RHEL-6 [Re: [RFA, doc RFA] New option set use-deprecated-index-sections] Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-25 20:36                     ` [commit+7.5] " Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-27 21:39                       ` [commit#2+7.5] " Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-19 16:11     ` [RFA, doc RFA] New option set use-deprecated-index-sections Eli Zaretskii

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