From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6186 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2012 20:56:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 6174 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2012 20:56:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:56:22 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0HKuJr7009992 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:56:19 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0HKuIZW005132; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:56:18 -0500 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0HKuFB5029278; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:56:16 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Eli Zaretskii , dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default References: <20120117095552.GA6141@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120117162621.GA3883@host2.jankratochvil.net> <837h0q5i4u.fsf@gnu.org> <20120117175957.GA9415@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120117203507.GA19670@host2.jankratochvil.net> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20120117203507.GA19670@host2.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:35:07 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00650.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil writes: Tom> I think gdb has touted this -- rightly -- as a feature. And, if Tom> anything, I think we've gone even more in this direction in recent Tom> years, what with pretty-printers and Python auto-loading. Furthermore, Tom> I think this is a good trend in general; applications are getting more Tom> complex, and this provides an important way to adapt the debugger to Tom> them. Jan> In such case the `canned sequences of commands' should be bound to Jan> the binary, not to the directory. One (me) runs GDB for so many Jan> different executablse while staying in src/gdb/ . Yeah, well... It is fixable if you think it is important enough. I personally just use -nx in these cases. Tom