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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
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Subject: Re: [MI] enabling non-stop mode
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:16:16PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> I've already proposed to add -enable-feature command to enable things
> that are off by default.

I agree with Nick; this sounds like -gdb-set.  If you need to give the
front end information about whether something is supported (by this
GDB or by this target), why not use -gdb-show for that?

Then -gdb-show could report "off (not supported by this target)" in
whatever format was convenient.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery