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On Wednesday 07 April 2010 14:32:49, Stan Shebs wrote:
Yeah, it's been troubling me too. User-settable variables are GDB's traditional way of instructing GDB about user preferences, but the canned method of phrase construction is too lame to express what is really going on, which is "I prefer that targets to continue tracing after disconnect, whether or not the current target can actually do so". We could use something other than set/show, or invent a better method to produce output - there are other set/shows for which the verbiage is rather contorted.
Hmm, can you expand on what lameness you're referring to exactly?
Is it a technical limitation?
These commands seem to fall in a close category:
(gdb) apropos willingness set can-use-hw-watchpoints -- Set debugger's willingness to use watchpoint hardware set displaced-stepping -- Set debugger's willingness to use displaced stepping show can-use-hw-watchpoints -- Show debugger's willingness to use watchpoint hardware show displaced-stepping -- Show debugger's willingness to use displaced stepping
Maybe we could follow suit similarly, or instead say something
like: "Show whether GDB prefers to/that/whether ..."
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