How about this? It addresses the issues raised here: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-06/msg00689.html This patch requires: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-06/msg00521.html which is unchanged (modulo the requested formatting change), and was approved here: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-06/msg00657.html