From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11426 invoked by alias); 15 Apr 2003 01:45:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11396 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2003 01:44:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zenia.red-bean.com) (12.222.151.100) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Apr 2003 01:44:58 -0000 Received: from zenia.red-bean.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h3F1kfFq010545; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:46:41 -0500 Received: (from jimb@localhost) by zenia.red-bean.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h3F1keLE010541; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:46:40 -0500 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA/RFC: dump symtab and psymtab lists References: <3E927CAF.1080704@redhat.com> <3E933B62.8090607@redhat.com> <3E94D283.7060308@redhat.com> <2950-Sat12Apr2003123240+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3E9B036D.30801@redhat.com> <3E9B46D0.90201@redhat.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 01:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3E9B46D0.90201@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.95 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00300.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: > > How about 'maint show {,p}symtab'? That's consistent with the main > > 'show' command (which displays information about GDB's state), and has > > no conflicting precedent. > > No. > > `show' is for ``showing [and setting] things about the debugger'' - > show remote, show debug. Just ignore `set variable ...'. > > info is for ``showing things about the program being debugged]] - info > frame, info registers, info symbols > > There can be overlap between a `set/show' and `info', but I don't > think that occures here. So, you'd prefer "maint info {,p}symtabs", then? Existing commands: - info sources - info functions