Re: [RFC][gdb/cli] Ignore error in gdb command script

[Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 2021-05-20 4:02 a.m., Philippe Waroquiers via Gdb-patches wrote:
> Not too sure to understand what is meant by 'follow-up' patch as the approaches
> are not really aligned:  implementing the 'setting approach' later will then add
> a different way rather than extend this one.
> 
> For what concerns the naming of the ignore-errors command (discussed in another mail
> e.g. as it it makes 'ignore' abbreviations ambiguous): it is worth
> mentioning that 'thread apply' and 'frame apply' have -c and -s
> arguments to indicate respectively  'print any error and continue'
> and 'silently ignore any error'.
> 
> So, maybe the naming of the new setting could be
>   set error-handling [abort-execution|print-and-continue|silently-ignore]
> (default value abort-execution).
> 
> If the 'setting approach' is  not the initial absolutely to do preferred approach :),
> then the command could be:
>    error-handle [-a|-c|-s] [--]  COMMAND
> (with -c being the default if no flag specified).

I agree that we should choose whether we want a command or a setting,
but not add two things to do the same thing.

And I think Philippe has a good point about the naming (that applies to
both if it's a command or a setting) to ensure extensibility.

Simon