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Re: source listing change
James Ingham wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:04:03PM -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> > >Chris Faylor wrote:
> > >> Yes! Please!
> > >>
> > >> I think that this has been discussed in the past. Do we really need to
> > >> make this a separate option to list?
> > >>
> > >
> > >Honestly, I didn't do any research to see if there was any discussion.
> > >Anyone remember? I'd like to see it as the default. It's a great
> > >visual clue.
> >
> > I vaguely recall that people were concerned that changing this may cause
> > problems for things like ddd, insight, emacs or anything else which
> > interprets output from gdb.
> >
>
> This would not cause insight any problems, and I doubt that emacs or ddd get
> their file listings from running "list" over the pipe to gdb. That
> would be an inordinantly slow way to do it, given that you can get gdb
> to tell you where the file is.
But it would break a lot of GDB testsuites. Somebody would
have to go thru all the new failures and correct the expect code.
Michael