Re: Why does symfile.c use printf_filtered?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:55:35PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >Does anybody know why symfile.c uses printf_filtered()?
> >
> >This causes a couple of problems, most notably when you load a module with 
> >a lot of shared library references.  The messages for "Reading symbols 
> >from"... inside symfile.c are printed filtered so eventually we end up 
> >causing a page break.  I do not think this information is worthy of 
> >requiring user intervention.
> >
> >Would anybody have an objection to me changing to use printf_unfiltered() 
> >in symfile.c?
> 
> It certainly doesn't look right.

Which oesn't look right?

> Log messages are there to keep the user up-to-date on what GDB is doing 
> (and confirm that GDB hasn't hung ...).  Just like other such messages 
> (thread notifications, hosted output from the remote) they should halt 

                                                           "shouldn't"?
> GDB and hence shouldn't be paged.
> 
> This is different to something like "info registers" where GDB has 
> stopped, and the user expects to be able to read the entire response.
> 
> enjoy,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer