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2025-01-15Fix help formatting for string and filename optionsTom Tromey1-2/+2
I happened to notice that "help add-inferior" said: -execFILENAME FILENAME is the file name of the executable to use as the main program. This is missing a space after "-exec". This patch fixes the bug. If ok'd on time I plan to check this in to the gdb-16 branch as well. Approved-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
2025-01-12Add an option with a color type.Andrei Pikas1-0/+42
Colors can be specified as "none" for terminal's default color, as a name of one of the eight standard colors of ISO/IEC 6429 "black", "red", "green", etc., as an RGB hexadecimal tripplet #RRGGBB for 24-bit TrueColor, or as an integer from 0 to 255. Integers 0 to 7 are the synonyms for the standard colors. Integers 8-15 are used for the so-called bright colors from the aixterm extended 16-color palette. Integers 16-255 are the indexes into xterm extended 256-color palette (usually 6x6x6 cube plus gray ramp). In general, 256-color palette is terminal dependent and sometimes can be changed with OSC 4 sequences, e.g. "\033]4;1;rgb:00/FF/00\033\\". It is the responsibility of the user to verify that the terminal supports the specified colors. PATCH v5 changes: documentation fixed. PATCH v6 changes: documentation fixed. PATCH v7 changes: rebase onto master and fixes after review. PATCH v8 changes: fixes after review.
2024-11-11Wrap help options when building help stringTom Tromey1-24/+39
When building a help string, it's possible that the resulting options will go over 80 columns. This patch changes this code to add line wrapping where needed. This can most be seen by looking "help bt" and in particular the "-frame-info" help text.
2024-11-04gdb: add filename option supportAndrew Burgess1-3/+87
This commit adds support for filename options to GDB's option sub-system (see cli/cli-option.{c,h}). The new filename options support quoted and escaped filenames, and tab completion is fully supported. This commit adds the new option, and adds these options to the 'maintenance test-options' command as '-filename', along with some tests that exercise this new option. I've split the -filename testing into two. In gdb.base/options.exp we use the -filename option with some arbitrary strings. This tests that GDB can correctly extract the value from a filename option, and that GDB can complete other options after a filename option. However, these tests don't actually pass real filenames, nor do they test filename completion. In gdb.base/filename-completion.exp I have added some tests that test the -filename option with real filenames, and exercise filename tab completion. This commit doesn't include any real uses of the new filename options, that will come in the next commit.
2024-03-26gdb, gdbserver, gdbsupport: remove includes of early headersSimon Marchi1-1/+0
Now that defs.h, server.h and common-defs.h are included via the `-include` option, it is no longer necessary for source files to include them. Remove all the inclusions of these files I could find. Update the generation scripts where relevant. Change-Id: Ia026cff269c1b7ae7386dd3619bc9bb6a5332837 Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
2024-01-12Update copyright year range in header of all files managed by GDBAndrew Burgess1-1/+1
This commit is the result of the following actions: - Running gdb/copyright.py to update all of the copyright headers to include 2024, - Manually updating a few files the copyright.py script told me to update, these files had copyright headers embedded within the file, - Regenerating gdbsupport/Makefile.in to refresh it's copyright date, - Using grep to find other files that still mentioned 2023. If these files were updated last year from 2022 to 2023 then I've updated them this year to 2024. I'm sure I've probably missed some dates. Feel free to fix them up as you spot them.
2023-11-21gdb: Replace gdb::optional with std::optionalLancelot Six1-7/+7
Since GDB now requires C++17, we don't need the internally maintained gdb::optional implementation. This patch does the following replacing: - gdb::optional -> std::optional - gdb::in_place -> std::in_place - #include "gdbsupport/gdb_optional.h" -> #include <optional> This change has mostly been done automatically. One exception is gdbsupport/thread-pool.* which did not use the gdb:: prefix as it already lives in the gdb namespace. Change-Id: I19a92fa03e89637bab136c72e34fd351524f65e9 Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
2023-01-19GDB: Allow arbitrary keywords in integer set commandsMaciej W. Rozycki1-35/+69
Rather than just `unlimited' allow the integer set commands (or command options) to define arbitrary keywords for the user to use, removing hardcoded arrangements for the `unlimited' keyword. Remove the confusingly named `var_zinteger', `var_zuinteger' and `var_zuinteger_unlimited' `set'/`show' command variable types redefining them in terms of `var_uinteger', `var_integer' and `var_pinteger', which have the range of [0;UINT_MAX], [INT_MIN;INT_MAX], and [0;INT_MAX] each. Following existing practice `var_pinteger' allows extra negative values to be used, however unlike `var_zuinteger_unlimited' any number of such values can be defined rather than just `-1'. The "p" in `var_pinteger' stands for "positive", for the lack of a more appropriate unambiguous letter, even though 0 obviously is not positive; "n" would be confusing as to whether it stands for "non-negative" or "negative". Add a new structure, `literal_def', the entries of which define extra keywords allowed for a command and numerical values they correspond to. Those values are not verified against the basic range supported by the underlying variable type, allowing extra values to be allowed outside that range, which may or may not be individually made visible to the user. An optional value translation is possible with the structure to follow the existing practice for some commands where user-entered 0 is internally translated to UINT_MAX or INT_MAX. Such translation can now be arbitrary. Literals defined by this structure are automatically used for completion as necessary. So for example: const literal_def integer_unlimited_literals[] = { { "unlimited", INT_MAX, 0 }, { nullptr } }; defines an extra `unlimited' keyword and a user-visible 0 value, both of which get translated to INT_MAX for the setting to be used with. Similarly: const literal_def zuinteger_unlimited_literals[] = { { "unlimited", -1, -1 }, { nullptr } }; defines the same keyword and a corresponding user-visible -1 value that is used for the requested setting. If the last member were omitted (or set to `{}') here, then only the keyword would be allowed for the user to enter and while -1 would still be used internally trying to enter it as a part of a command would result in an "integer -1 out of range" error. Use said error message in all cases (citing the invalid value requested) replacing "only -1 is allowed to set as unlimited" previously used for `var_zuinteger_unlimited' settings only rather than propagating it to `var_pinteger' type. It could only be used for the specific case where a single extra `unlimited' keyword was defined standing for -1 and the use of numeric equivalents is discouraged anyway as it is for historical reasons only that they expose GDB internals, confusingly different across variable types. Similarly update the "must be >= -1" Guile error message. Redefine Guile and Python parameter types in terms of the new variable types and interpret extra keywords as Scheme keywords and Python strings used to communicate corresponding parameter values. Do not add a new PARAM_INTEGER Guile parameter type, however do handle the `var_integer' variable type now, permitting existing parameters defined by GDB proper, such as `listsize', to be accessed from Scheme code. With these changes in place it should be trivial for a Scheme or Python programmer to expand the syntax of the `make-parameter' command and the `gdb.Parameter' class initializer to have arbitrary extra literals along with their internal representation supplied. Update the testsuite accordingly. Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
2023-01-01Update copyright year range in header of all files managed by GDBJoel Brobecker1-1/+1
This commit is the result of running the gdb/copyright.py script, which automated the update of the copyright year range for all source files managed by the GDB project to be updated to include year 2023.
2022-01-01Automatic Copyright Year update after running gdb/copyright.pyJoel Brobecker1-1/+1
This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure. For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were performed by the script.
2021-11-18gdbsupport: make gdb_assert_not_reached accept a format stringSimon Marchi1-2/+2
Change gdb_assert_not_reached to accept a format string plus corresponding arguments. This allows giving more precise messages. Because the format string passed by the caller is prepended with a "%s:" to add the function name, the callers can no longer pass a translated string (`_(...)`). Make the gdb_assert_not_reached include the _(), just like the gdb_assert_fail macro just above. Change-Id: Id0cfda5a57979df6cdaacaba0d55dd91ae9efee7
2021-10-03gdb: make string-like set show commands use std::string variableSimon Marchi1-5/+4
String-like settings (var_string, var_filename, var_optional_filename, var_string_noescape) currently take a pointer to a `char *` storage variable (typically global) that holds the setting's value. I'd like to "mordernize" this by changing them to use an std::string for storage. An obvious reason is that string operations on std::string are often easier to write than with C strings. And they avoid having to do any manual memory management. Another interesting reason is that, with `char *`, nullptr and an empty string often both have the same meaning of "no value". String settings are initially nullptr (unless initialized otherwise). But when doing "set foo" (where `foo` is a string setting), the setting now points to an empty string. For example, solib_search_path is nullptr at startup, but points to an empty string after doing "set solib-search-path". This leads to some code that needs to check for both to check for "no value". Or some code that converts back and forth between NULL and "" when getting or setting the value. I find this very error-prone, because it is very easy to forget one or the other. With std::string, we at least know that the variable is not "NULL". There is only one way of representing an empty string setting, that is with an empty string. I was wondering whether the distinction between NULL and "" would be important for some setting, but it doesn't seem so. If that ever happens, it would be more C++-y and self-descriptive to use optional<string> anyway. Actually, there's one spot where this distinction mattered, it's in init_history, for the test gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp. init_history sets the history filename to the default ".gdb_history" if it sees that the setting was never set - if history_filename is nullptr. If history_filename is an empty string, it means the setting was explicitly cleared, so it leaves it as-is. With the change to std::string, this distinction doesn't exist anymore. This can be fixed by moving the code that chooses a good default value for history_filename to _initialize_top. This is ran before -ex commands are processed, so an -ex command can then clear that value if needed (what gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp tests). Another small improvement, in my opinion is that we can now easily give string parameters initial values, by simply initializing the global variables, instead of xstrdup-ing it in the _initialize function. In Python and Guile, when registering a string-like parameter, we allocate (with new) an std::string that is owned by the param_smob (in Guile) and the parmpy_object (in Python) objects. This patch started by changing all relevant add_setshow_* commands to take an `std::string *` instead of a `char **` and fixing everything that failed to build. That includes of course all string setting variable and their uses. string_option_def now uses an std::string also, because there's a connection between options and settings (see add_setshow_cmds_for_options). The add_path function in source.c is really complex and twisted, I'd rather not try to change it to work on an std::string right now. Instead, I added an overload that copies the std:string to a `char *` and back. This means more copying, but this is not used in a hot path at all, so I think it is acceptable. Change-Id: I92c50a1bdd8307141cdbacb388248e4e4fc08c93 Co-authored-by: Lancelot SIX <lsix@lancelotsix.com>
2021-01-01Update copyright year range in all GDB filesJoel Brobecker1-1/+1
This commits the result of running gdb/copyright.py as per our Start of New Year procedure... gdb/ChangeLog Update copyright year range in copyright header of all GDB files.
2020-01-01Update copyright year range in all GDB files.Joel Brobecker1-1/+1
gdb/ChangeLog: Update copyright year range in all GDB files.
2019-08-07Make first and last lines of 'command help documentation' consistent.Philippe Waroquiers1-4/+12
With this patch, the help docs now respect 2 invariants: * The first line of a command help is terminated by a '.' character. * The last character of a command help is not a newline character. Note that the changes for the last invariant were done by Tom, as part of : [PATCH] Remove trailing newlines from help text https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-06/msg00050.html but some occurrences have been re-introduced since then. Some help docs had to be rephrased/restructured to respect the above invariants. Before this patch, print_doc_line was printing the first line of a command help documentation, but stopping at the first '.' or ',' character. This was giving inconsistent results : * The first line of command helps was sometimes '.' terminated, sometimes not. * The first line of command helps was not always designed to be readable/understandable/unambiguous when stopping at the first '.' or ',' character. This e.g. created the following inconsistencies/problems: < catch exception -- Catch Ada exceptions < catch handlers -- Catch Ada exceptions < catch syscall -- Catch system calls by their names < down-silently -- Same as the `down' command while the new help is: > catch exception -- Catch Ada exceptions, when raised. > catch handlers -- Catch Ada exceptions, when handled. > catch syscall -- Catch system calls by their names, groups and/or numbers. > down-silently -- Same as the `down' command, but does not print anything. Also, the command help doc should not be terminated by a newline character, but this was not respected by all commands. The cli-option -OPT framework re-introduced some occurences. So, the -OPT build help framework was changed to not output newlines at the end of %OPTIONS% replacement. This patch changes the help documentations to ensure the 2 invariants given above. It implied to slightly rephrase or restructure some help docs. Based on the above invariants, print_doc_line (called by 'apropos' and 'help' commands to print the first line of a command help) now outputs the full first line of a command help. This all results in a lot of small changes in the produced help docs. There are less code changes than changes in the help docs, as a lot of docs are produced by some code (e.g. the remote packet usage settings). gdb/ChangeLog 2019-08-07 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> * cli/cli-decode.h (print_doc_line): Add for_value_prefix argument. * cli/cli-decode.c (print_doc_line): Likewise. It now prints the full first line, except when FOR_VALUE_PREFIX. In this case, the trailing '.' is not output, and the first character is uppercased. (print_help_for_command): Update call to print_doc_line. (print_doc_of_command): Likewise. * cli/cli-setshow.c (deprecated_show_value_hack): Likewise. * cli/cli-option.c (append_indented_doc): Do not append newline. (build_help_option): Append newline after first appended_indented_doc only if a second call is done. (build_help): Append 2 new lines before each option, except the first one. * compile/compile.c (_initialize_compile): Add new lines after %OPTIONS%, when not at the end of the help. Change help doc or code producing the help doc to respect the invariants. * maint-test-options.c (_initialize_maint_test_options): Likewise. Also removed the new line after 'Options:', as all other commands do not put an empty line between 'Options:' and the first option. * printcmd.c (_initialize_printcmd): Likewise. * stack.c (_initialize_stack): Likewise. * interps.c (interpreter_exec_cmd): Fix "Usage:" line that was incorrectly telling COMMAND is optional. * ada-lang.c (_initialize_ada_language): Change help doc or code producing the help doc to respect the invariants. * ada-tasks.c (_initialize_ada_tasks): Likewise. * breakpoint.c (_initialize_breakpoint): Likewise. * cli/cli-cmds.c (_initialize_cli_cmds): Likewise. * cli/cli-logging.c (_initialize_cli_logging): Likewise. * cli/cli-setshow.c (_initialize_cli_setshow): Likewise. * cli/cli-style.c (cli_style_option::add_setshow_commands, _initialize_cli_style): Likewise. * corelow.c (core_target_info): Likewise. * dwarf-index-cache.c (_initialize_index_cache): Likewise. * dwarf2read.c (_initialize_dwarf2_read): Likewise. * filesystem.c (_initialize_filesystem): Likewise. * frame.c (_initialize_frame): Likewise. * gnu-nat.c (add_task_commands): Likewise. * infcall.c (_initialize_infcall): Likewise. * infcmd.c (_initialize_infcmd): Likewise. * interps.c (_initialize_interpreter): Likewise. * language.c (_initialize_language): Likewise. * linux-fork.c (_initialize_linux_fork): Likewise. * maint-test-settings.c (_initialize_maint_test_settings): Likewise. * maint.c (_initialize_maint_cmds): Likewise. * memattr.c (_initialize_mem): Likewise. * printcmd.c (_initialize_printcmd): Likewise. * python/lib/gdb/function/strfns.py (_MemEq, _StrLen, _StrEq, _RegEx): Likewise. * ravenscar-thread.c (_initialize_ravenscar): Likewise. * record-btrace.c (_initialize_record_btrace): Likewise. * record-full.c (_initialize_record_full): Likewise. * record.c (_initialize_record): Likewise. * regcache-dump.c (_initialize_regcache_dump): Likewise. * regcache.c (_initialize_regcache): Likewise. * remote.c (add_packet_config_cmd, init_remote_threadtests, _initialize_remote): Likewise. * ser-tcp.c (_initialize_ser_tcp): Likewise. * serial.c (_initialize_serial): Likewise. * skip.c (_initialize_step_skip): Likewise. * source.c (_initialize_source): Likewise. * stack.c (_initialize_stack): Likewise. * symfile.c (_initialize_symfile): Likewise. * symtab.c (_initialize_symtab): Likewise. * target-descriptions.c (_initialize_target_descriptions): Likewise. * top.c (init_main): Likewise. * tracefile-tfile.c (tfile_target_info): Likewise. * tracepoint.c (_initialize_tracepoint): Likewise. * tui/tui-win.c (_initialize_tui_win): Likewise. * utils.c (add_internal_problem_command): Likewise. * valprint.c (value_print_option_defs): Likewise. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog 2019-08-07 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> * gdb.base/style.exp: Update tests for help doc new invariants. * gdb.base/help.exp: Likewise.
2019-07-11gdb: Allow quoting around string options in the gdb::option frameworkAndrew Burgess1-3/+2
Currently string options must be a single string with no whitespace, this limitation prevents the gdb::option framework being used in some places. After this commit, string options can be quoted in single or double quotes, and quote characters can be escaped with a backslash if needed to either place them within quotes, or to avoid starting a quoted argument. This test adds a new function extract_string_maybe_quoted which is basically a copy of extract_arg_maybe_quoted from cli/cli-utils.c, however, the cli-utils.c function will be deleted in the next commit. There are tests to exercise the new quoting mechanism. gdb/ChangeLog: * cli/cli-option.c (parse_option): Use extract_string_maybe_quoted to extract string arguments. * common/common-utils.c (extract_string_maybe_quoted): New function. * common/common-utils.h (extract_string_maybe_quoted): Declare. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.base/options.exp (expect_string): Dequote strings in results. (test-string): Test strings with different quoting and reindent.
2019-07-03Teach gdb::option about string optionsPedro Alves1-0/+86
A following patch will make the "pipe" command use the gdb::option framework for option processing. However, "pipe"'s only option today is a string option, "-d DELIM", and gdb::option does not support string options yet. This commit adds support for string options, mapped to var_string. For now, a string is parsed up until the first whitespace. I imagine that we'll need to add support for quoting so that we could do: (gdb) cmd -option 'some -string' without gdb confusing the "-string" for an option. This doesn't seem important for pipe, so I'm leaving it for another day. One thing I'm not happy with, is that the string data is managed as a raw malloc-allocated char *, which means that we need to xfree it manually. This is because var_string settings work that way too. Although with var_string settings we're leaking the strings at gdb exit, that was never really a problem. For options though, leaking is undesirable. I think we should tackle that for both settings and options at the same time, so for now I'm just managing the malloced data manually. It's a bit ugly in option_def_and_value, but at least that's hidden from view. For testing, this adds a new "-string" option to "maint test-settings", and then tweaks gdb.base/options.exp to exercise it. gdb/ChangeLog: 2019-07-03 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * cli/cli-option.c (union option_value) <string>: New field. (struct option_def_and_value): Add ctor, move ctor, dtor and use DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN. (option_def_and_value::clear_value): New. (parse_option, save_option_value_in_ctx, get_val_type_str) (add_setshow_cmds_for_options): Handle var_string. * cli-option.h (union option_def::var_address) <string>: New field. (struct string_option_def): New. * maint-test-options.c (struct test_options_opts): Add default ctor and use DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN. <string_opt>: New field. (test_options_opts::~test_options_opts): New. (test_options_opts::dump): Also dump "-string". (test_options_option_defs): Install "string. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2019-07-03 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.base/options.exp (expect_none, expect_flag, expect_bool) (expect_integer): Adjust to expect "-string". (expect_string): New. (all_options): Expect "-string". (test-flag, test-boolean): Adjust to expect "-string". (test-string): New proc. (top level): Call it.
2019-07-03Make gdb::option::complete_options save processed arguments tooPedro Alves1-27/+43
Currently, gdb::option::complete_options just discards any processed option argument, because no completer needs that data. When completing "pipe -d XXX gdbcmd XXX" however, the completer needs to know about -d's argument (XXX), in order to know where input is already past the gdb command and the delimiter. In this commit, the fix for that is the factoring out of the save_option_value_in_ctx function and calling it in complete_options. For testing, this makes "maint show test-options-completion-result" show the processed options too, like what the "maint test-options" subcommands output when run. Then, of course, gdb.base/options.exp is adjusted. Doing this exposed a couple latent bugs, which is what the other gdb changes in the patch are for: - in the var_enum case, without the change, we'd end up with a null enum argument, and print: "-enum (null)" - The get_ulongest change is necessary to avoid advancing PP in a case where we end up throwing an error, e.g., when parsing "11x". Without the change the operand pointer shown by "maint show test-options-completion-result" would be left pointing at "x" instead of "11x". gdb/ChangeLog: 2019-07-03 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * cli/cli-option.c (parse_option) <var_enum>: Don't return an option_value with a null enumeration. (complete_options): Save the option values in the context. (save_option_value_in_ctx): New, factored out from ... (process_options): ... here. * cli/cli-utils.c (get_ulongest): Don't advance PP until the end of the function. * maint-test-options.c (test_options_opts::dump): New, factored out from ... (maintenance_test_options_command_mode): ... here. (maintenance_test_options_command_completion_result): Delete. (maintenance_test_options_command_completion_text): Update comment. (maintenance_show_test_options_completion_result): Change prototype. Just print maintenance_test_options_command_completion_text. (save_completion_result): New. (maintenance_test_options_completer_mode): Pass options context to complete_options, and then save a dump. (_initialize_maint_test_options): Use add_cmd to install "maint show test-options-completion-result". gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2019-07-03 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.base/options.exp (test-misc, test-flag, test-boolean) (test-uinteger, test-enum): Adjust res_test_gdb_... calls to pass the expected output in the success.
2019-06-13Introduce generic command options frameworkPedro Alves1-0/+724
This commit adds a generic command options framework, that makes it easy enough to add '-'-style options to commands in a uniform way, instead of each command implementing option parsing in its own way. Options are defined in arrays of option_def objects (for option definition), and the same options definitions are used for supporting TAB completion, and also for generating the relevant help fragment of the "help" command. See the gdb::options::build_help function, which returns a string with the result of replacing %OPTIONS% in a template string with an auto-generated "help" string fragment for all the passed-in options. Since most options in GDB are in the form of "-OPT", with a single dash, this is the format that the framework supports. I like to think of gdb's "-OPT" as the equivalent to getopt's long options format ("--OPT"), and gdb's "/" as the equivalent to getopt's short options format. getopt's short options format allows mixing several one-character options, like "ls -als", kind of similar to gdb's "x /FMT" and "disassemble /MOD", etc. While with gdb's "-" options, the option is expected to have a full name, and to be abbreviatable. E.g., "watch -location", "break -function main", etc. This patch only deals with "-" options. The above comment serves more to disclose why I don't think we should support mixing several unrelated options in a single "-" option invocation, like "thread apply -qcs" instead of "thread apply -q -c -s". The following patches will add uses of the infrastructure to several key commands. Most notably, "print", "compile print", "backtrace", "frame apply" and "thread apply". I tried to add options to several commands in order to make sure the framework didn't leave that many open holes open. Options use the same type as set commands -- enum var_types. So boolean options are var_boolean, enum options are var_enum, etc. The idea is to share code between settings commands and command options. The "print" options will be based on the "set print" commands, and their names will be the same. Actually, their definitions will be the same too. There is a function to create "set/show" commands from an array for option definitions: /* Install set/show commands for options defined in OPTIONS. DATA is a pointer to the structure that holds the data associated with the OPTIONS array. */ extern void add_setshow_cmds_for_options (command_class cmd_class, void *data, gdb::array_view<const option_def> options, struct cmd_list_element **set_list, struct cmd_list_element **show_list); That will be used by several following patches. Other features: - You can use the "--" delimiter to explicitly indicate end of options. Several existing commands use this token sequence for this effect already, so this just standardizes it. - You can shorten option names, as long as unambiguous. Currently, some commands allow this (e.g., break -function), while others do not (thread apply all -ascending). As GDB allows abbreviating command names and other things, it feels more GDB-ish to allow abbreviating option names too, to me. - For boolean options, 0/1 stands for off/on, just like with boolean "set" commands. - For boolean options, "true" is implied, just like with boolean "set commands. These are the option types supported, with a few examples: - boolean options (var_boolean). The option's argument is optional. (gdb) print -pretty on -- *obj (gdb) print -pretty off -- *obj (gdb) print -p -- *obj (gdb) print -p 0 -- *obj - flag options (like var_boolean, but no option argument (on/off)) (gdb) thread apply all -s COMMAND - enum options (var_enum) (gdb) bt -entry-values compact (gdb) bt -e c - uinteger options (var_uinteger) (gdb) print -elements 100 -- *obj (gdb) print -e 100 -- *obj (gdb) print -elements unlimited -- *obj (gdb) print -e u -- *obj - zuinteger-unlimited options (var_zuinteger_unlimited) (gdb) print -max-depth 100 -- obj (gdb) print -max-depth -1 -- obj (gdb) print -max-depth unlimited -- obj Other var_types could be supported, of course. These were just the types that I needed for the commands that I ported over, in the following patches. It was interesting (and unfortunate) to find that we need at least 3 different modes to cover the existing commands: - Commands that require ending options with "--" if you specify any option: "print" and "compile print". - Commands that do not want to require "--", and want to error out if you specify an unknown option (i.e., an unknown argument that starts with '-'): "compile code" / "compile file". - Commands that do not want to require "--", and want to process unknown options themselves: "bt", because of "bt -COUNT", "thread/frame apply", because "-" is a valid command. The different behavior is encoded in the process_options_mode enum, passed to process_options/complete_options. For testing, this patch adds one representative maintenance command for each of the process_options_mode values, that are used by the testsuite to exercise the options framework: (gdb) maint test-options require-delimiter (gdb) maint test-options unknown-is-error (gdb) maint test-options unknown-is-operand and adds another command to help with TAB-completion testing: (gdb) maint show test-options-completion-result See their description at the top of the maint-test-options.c file. Docs/NEWS are in a patch later in the series. gdb/ChangeLog: 2019-06-13 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * Makefile.in (SUBDIR_CLI_SRCS): Add cli/cli-option.c. (COMMON_SFILES): Add maint-test-settings.c. * cli/cli-decode.c (boolean_enums): New global, factored out from ... (add_setshow_boolean_cmd): ... here. * cli/cli-decode.h (boolean_enums): Declare. * cli/cli-option.c: New file. * cli/cli-option.h: New file. * cli/cli-setshow.c (parse_cli_boolean_value(const char **)): New, factored out from ... (parse_cli_boolean_value(const char *)): ... this. (is_unlimited_literal): Change parameter type to pointer to pointer. Adjust and advance ARG pointer. (parse_cli_var_uinteger, parse_cli_var_zuinteger_unlimited) (parse_cli_var_enum): New, factored out from ... (do_set_command): ... this. Adjust. * cli/cli-setshow.h (parse_cli_boolean_value) (parse_cli_var_uinteger, parse_cli_var_zuinteger_unlimited) (parse_cli_var_enum): Declare. * cli/cli-utils.c: Include "cli/cli-option.h". (get_ulongest): New. * cli/cli-utils.h (get_ulongest): Declare. (check_for_argument): New overloads. * maint-test-options.c: New file. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2019-06-13 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.base/options.c: New file. * gdb.base/options.exp: New file.