Re: [patch] Implement $_version; for auto-load commands in ~/.gdbinit

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:38:56 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:32:15 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > Before writing it is there a consensus for example for ~/.gdbinit to use
> > 	set $_ignore_errors=1
> > 	add-auto-load-safe-path ~/src
> > 	set $_ignore_errors=0
> > ?
> 
> Apparently that would not work.  Probably either:
> 	if $_have_ignore_errors
> 		set ignore-errors yes
> 		add-auto-load-safe-path ~/src
> 		set ignore-errors no
> 	end
> or:
> 	if $_have_ignore_errors
> 		set $_ignore-errors=1
> 		add-auto-load-safe-path ~/src
> 		set $_ignore-errors=0
> 	end
> or:
> 	if $_have_ignore_errors
> 		ignore-errors
> 			add-auto-load-safe-path ~/src
> 		end
> 	end

I fail to see how this is better than using $_version.