[PATCH 2/2] gdb: Improve formatting of 'show endian' messages

Gary Benson gbenson@redhat.com
Wed Jul 8 10:06:44 GMT 2020


Andrew Burgess wrote:
> This commit changes the output of 'show endian'.  Here is a
> session before this commit:
> 
>     (gdb) show endian
>     The target endianness is set automatically (currently little endian)
>     (gdb) set endian big
>     The target is assumed to be big endian
>     (gdb) show endian
>     The target is assumed to be big endian
>     (gdb)
> 
> After this commit the session now looks like this:
> 
>     (gdb) show endian
>     The target endianness is set automatically (currently little endian).
>     (gdb) set endian big
>     The target is set to big endian.
>     (gdb) show endian
>     The target is set to big endian.
>     (gdb)
> 
> The changes are:
> 
>   1. Each line ends with '.', and
>   2. After setting the endianness GDB is now a little more assertive;
>   'target is set to' not 'target is assumed to be', the user did just
>   tell us after all!

LGTM.

Cheers,
Gary

-- 
Gary Benson - he / him / his
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat



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