"gdb --config" to show the xxHash option

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Wed Dec 18 18:35:00 GMT 2019


> From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:57:18 -0600
> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:04 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've noticed that HAVE_LIBXXHASH is not reflected in the --config
> > output.  Okay to commit the below? including to the GDB 9 branch?
> 
> As the person who added this flag, this sounds reasonable to me. What
> are the criteria for adding stuff to this list? I didn't add it
> because there's no user-visible effect other than performance.

The original idea was to provide a means for end-users to report to us
how their GDB was configured, to facilitate investigation of issues.
So I think any optional feature should be reflected in the output of
"gdb --config".



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