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Re: [RFA] Displaced stepping just enable in non-stop mode


On Thursday 16 October 2008 03:38:37, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:07:42AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:

> > I think Joel's suggestion was a good one:  By gaining an "auto"
> > setting, this is as much a maintainer command as
> > "set breakpoint always-inserted" is.  So, I believe it's time we move
> > the command to the top level "set" command group.
> > 
> >  set can-use-displaced-stepping (auto|on|off)
> > 
> > Eli, can I ask you to go over the help strings and the documentation in
> > the patch below?  Do they look OK-ish?
> 
> That's a pretty long name.  Do you think there are any other useful
> stepping related settings?  If so, maybe we should have a "set step"
> prefix.
> 

Hmm, not offhand.  I'd have to think about it.
What would you call the setting then, if not "set step can-use-displaced-stepping" ?

The name was actually modeled on "set can-use-hw-watchpoints" in the first place.

-- 
Pedro Alves


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