Re: Calling -enable-pretty-printing without modifying the GUI frontend

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Noam" == Noam Yorav-Raphael <noamraph@gmail.com> writes:

Noam> My question is whether there's a way to automatically enable pretty
Noam> printing without the frontend calling the command - for example, it
Noam> would be nice if I could add it to the gdbinit file. I have to work
Noam> with a not very new version of kdevelop as a gdb frontend, and
Noam> recompiling it is not an option. I would prefer not to use a special
Noam> branch of gdb which has pretty printers enabled by default.

Noam> Is it possible?

The reason we added an explicit command is that older clients may not
function properly with pretty-printing.

For example, if you try to pretty-print an uninitialized object, you
might get a very large number of children, causing your debug session to
lock up or crash.

So, even if it is possible, I would recommend against it.

Tom