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Re: [patch] New set auto-load-local-gdbinit + disable it by default
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
Jan> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:54:57 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> ??? How's the .gdbinit file that comes with Emacs "malicious"?
Jan> If one runs "gdb" one expects to get "gdb".
Jan> If one runs "gdb" in any of these directories (Emacs) one surprisingly gets
Jan> some weirdly behaving beast instead.
I'm not convinced by this line of argument.
I think gdb has touted this -- rightly -- as a feature. And, if
anything, I think we've gone even more in this direction in recent
years, what with pretty-printers and Python auto-loading. Furthermore,
I think this is a good trend in general; applications are getting more
complex, and this provides an important way to adapt the debugger to
them.
That said, I agree with your conclusions for other reasons.
Tom