Re: source listing change

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>]

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