Re: [PATCH v2] gdb: make "start" breakpoint inferior-specific

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

On 11/16/22 11:22, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
> 
> Simon> What is "set language unknown" useful for, generally speaking?  If
> Simon> debugging something in a language GDB doesn't know about, I think it
> Simon> will fall back to minimal.  Could we just not expose the "unknown"
> Simon> language to the user?
> 
> I wonder if we can remove it entirely and replace it with "minimal".
> 
> Tom

I think so.  I started a patch here [1] but haven't had time to follow
up on it.

In the uses of "set lang unknown" in the testsuite, two are to verify
that trying to print an expression while the unknown language is
selected gives an error message and does not crash, we don't care about
those.

The other one, in gdb.cp/demangle.exp, I think it's to make sure that
the current language is something else than the language we pass to
"demangle -l".  I think using the minimal language there should be fine.

Simon

[1] https://review.lttng.org/c/binutils-gdb/+/8952