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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Read $GDBHISTSIZE instead of $HISTSIZE
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Patrick Palka <patrick at parcs dot ath dot cx>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:54:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Read $GDBHISTSIZE instead of $HISTSIZE
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On 06/04/2015 04:30 PM, Patrick Palka wrote:
> Hmm, reading HISTSIZE as a last resort would reduce the inter-version
> breakage a little, at least for users who today rely solely on
> HISTSIZE (not ~/.gdbinit) to set their history size. This can be
> done, I guess.
I'd propose going ahead with the patch that ignores HISTSIZE and
seeing if anyone notices/complains.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves