Re: Multi-arch and user-control of architecture flags

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> 
>> So how feasible would it be to extend the "set" and "show" commands so 
>> that they could sub-set the information?  For example, to allow
>> 
>>   set <target> <var> <value>
>> 
>> and 
>> 
>>   show <target> <var>
>> 
>> or even
>> 
>>   show <target>
>> 
>> to show all variables specific to the target.
> 
> 
> I don't know how hard is this, but I like the idea from the UI point of 
> view.

Have a look at the ``(gdb) set mips'' command ;-)  Another group with 
the same problem are the ``info'' commands.

New targets, when someone remembers, are done this way.  The problem is 
all the old commands and for that we have have a deprecate mechanism.

The mailing lists also contain discussion about a set [<arch>] 
disassembler command which would more directly tie into bfd's 
disassembler option.

Andrew