RE: Different output from -gdb-show than show

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Michael Snyder
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 3:33 PM
> To: Pedro Alves
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org; Marc Khouzam
> Subject: Re: Different output from -gdb-show than show
> 
> Pedro Alves wrote:
> 
> > Note "Forward." vs "forward".
> > 
> >>   2010-08-31  Michael Snyder  
> <msnyder@msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com>
> >>
> >>         * infrun.c (set_exec_direction_func): Error out if 
> target does not
> >>         support reverse execution.
> > 
> > Okay.
> 
> Thanks, applied to trunk and branch.

Thanks guys!

Here is what I'm planning to do to see if a target supports reverse
execution:

-gdb-set exec-direction reverse
show exec-direction
-gdb-set exec-direction forward

If the 'show' command shows "Reverse", I'll know that the target
supports reverse execution.  (I have to do it like this because 
I also want it to work for 7.0 and 7.1)

That is the only thing I found that gave me that info without
side-effects.  Makes sense?

Marc