Re: Why does symfile.c use printf_filtered?

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> Log messages are there to keep the user up-to-date on what GDB is doing 
> > (and confirm that GDB hasn't hung ...).  Just like other such messages 
> > (thread notifications, hosted output from the remote) they should halt 
>
>
>                                                            "shouldn't"?

Grr, yes.  "shouldn't".  Having the hosted output, fir instance, stop 
after 24 lines would (and did) drive people batty :-)

> > GDB and hence shouldn't be paged.
> >
> > This is different to something like "info registers" where GDB has 
> > stopped, and the user expects to be able to read the entire response.

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