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Re: source listing change



> >> I think that this has been discussed in the past.  Do we really need to
> >> make this a separate option to list?
> >Honestly, I didn't do any research to see if there was any discussion. 
> >Anyone remember?  I'd like to see it as the default.  It's a great
> >visual clue.
> I vaguely recall that people were concerned that changing this may cause
> problems for things like ddd, insight, emacs or anything else which
> interprets output from gdb.

To be honest, I don't think we should avoid making good changes to
GDB's output simply because it might break some program foolish enough
to try to parse it.  That's so limiting.

Given that it's not going to break Emacs, Insight, or much of the test
suites, I think this change is a shoo-in.

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