gdb -batch always exits with status 0

[Ruslan Kabatsayev]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 14:03, Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 15:47 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> > > Would anybody object to my changing GDB's behaviour to terminate
> > > on the first error in batch mode?
> >
> > I would definitely not like this.  Often I write batch files that
> > are used to collect information about cores (or running processes);
> > if some aspect of the core is not as I expect, or values are
> > optimized out, or some operation fails for whatever reason, I
> > definitely do not want my batch processing to stop.  I want it to
> > continue so I can get as much information as possible.
> >
> > If a "stop on error" mode is needed then there should be a separate
> > option to GDB such as '-batch-fail' or whatever for that, IMO.
>
> Paul, Ruslan, would it be acceptable to you if I:
>
>   1) changed the default behaviour to exit 1 on the first error
>   2) added an option (e.g. -ignore-errors) to revert to the current
>      behaviour.

Ideally, I'd like to have a more fine-grained way to choose which
commands' errors are to be ignored. But if it's much harder to
implement, the way you suggest is fine with me.

>
> Thanks,
> Gary