[PATCH] Don't show deprecated commands in help

Simon Marchi simon.marchi@ericsson.com
Mon Apr 4 20:48:00 GMT 2016


Just like completion doesn't show deprecated commands, I think that help
should not list them, so that we don't incite users to use them.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* cli/cli-decode.c (help_cmd_list): Do not list commands that
	are deprecated.
---
 gdb/cli/cli-decode.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-decode.c b/gdb/cli/cli-decode.c
index 8a8abda..0d2b137 100644
--- a/gdb/cli/cli-decode.c
+++ b/gdb/cli/cli-decode.c
@@ -1194,13 +1194,16 @@ help_cmd_list (struct cmd_list_element *list, enum command_class theclass,
   for (c = list; c; c = c->next)
     {
       if (c->abbrev_flag == 0
+	  && !c->cmd_deprecated
 	  && (theclass == all_commands
 	      || (theclass == all_classes && c->func == NULL)
 	      || (theclass == c->theclass && c->func != NULL)))
 	{
 	  print_help_for_command (c, prefix, recurse, stream);
 	}
-      else if (c->abbrev_flag == 0 && recurse
+      else if (c->abbrev_flag == 0
+	       && recurse
+	       && !c->cmd_deprecated
 	       && theclass == class_user && c->prefixlist != NULL)
 	/* User-defined commands may be subcommands.  */
 	help_cmd_list (*c->prefixlist, theclass, c->prefixname,
-- 
2.8.0



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