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From: Ruslan Kabatsayev <b7.10110111@gmail.com>
To: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
Cc: psmith@gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb -batch always exits with status 0
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHEcG96yy8tekiVGjSvjn=AnmFkYRzPhCL_+5tSNj-81-D6HUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180817152345.GA2920@blade.nx>

On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 18:23, Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> It would be the least impactful way, sure, but my point is that GDB
> doesn't operate in an intuitive way, and my view is that whatever is
> intuitive should be the default.  Having to request it with a special
> flag makes GDB harder for new users.

Not sure about intuitiveness of early exit, but we have an example of
the converse: bash (and other shells). Namely, by default it executes
all the commands, exits with the exit status of the last command
executed. But you can `set -e`, and then first failing command will
stop processing. But then, there do exist means to suppress failure
(e.g. `badCommand && true`), which GDB doesn't seem to have.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-05 14:47 Gary Benson
2018-07-05 14:55 ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2018-07-05 15:23 ` Paul Smith
2018-08-17 11:03   ` Gary Benson
2018-08-17 11:25     ` Ruslan Kabatsayev
2018-08-17 13:24     ` Paul Smith
2018-08-17 15:23       ` Gary Benson
2018-08-17 15:44         ` Ruslan Kabatsayev [this message]
2018-08-17 16:03           ` Gary Benson
2018-08-17 18:30             ` Pedro Alves
2018-08-22  9:07               ` Gary Benson

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