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Re: [RFA] Implement show | set can-call-inferior-functions [on|off]
On 4/25/19 2:15 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> An error definitely seems like the correct thing to do here. Other
> choices will give silently mysterious behavior.
>
> A convenience variable is fine, too, though I suspect it will be little
> used. I wouldn't require it for this patch to go in.
Agreed. You could argue that it'd be better to instead come up with
a facility for CLI to inspect the value of any set/show option, though.
But you can already do that with Python's gdb.parameter, so I
guess it may not be that pressing to have a pure CLI mechanism.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves