Re: gdb -batch always exits with status 0

[Paul Smith <psmith at gnu dot org>]

On Fri, 2018-08-17 at 12:03 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> Paul, Ruslan, would it be acceptable to you if I:
> 
>   1) changed the default behaviour to exit 1 on the first error
>   2) added an option (e.g. -ignore-errors) to revert to the current
>      behaviour.

[I'm on vacation until next week so may not be responding immediately]

Well it would not be ideal as I'd need to go through all my scripts
etc. and modify them to add an extra argument.

I guess I'm not really sure why we want to change the default behavior
here.  Do we have people requesting this change?  I haven't seen a
groundswell of people saying they were confused becuase they expected a
different behavior, and the current behavior has good and useful
reasons for existing (i.e., not just an oversight).

Wouldn't the most sensible/least impactful way forward be to leave the
current behavior as-is, and then if people want a different behavior
add a new option they can use to request it?

However, I'm not doing the work so if that's the way GDB devs want to
have it work I will change my usage.

Cheers!