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30.2; Outdated Python conditional in .gdbinit

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To: Jeremy Bryant <jb <at> jeremybryant.net>
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Subject: bug#79341: closed (30.2; Outdated Python conditional in .gdbinit)
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:35:02 +0000

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From: Jeremy Bryant <jb <at> jeremybryant.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: 30.2; Outdated Python conditional in .gdbinit
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 23:22:32 +0100

Dear Emacs developers, Paul,

In .gdbinit, before the Python commands, we have this if statement.

2b91f3d1eac4 (Paul Eggert         2017-05-05 1334) # Omit pretty-printing in older (pre-7.3) GDBs that lack it.
2b91f3d1eac4 (Paul Eggert         2017-05-05 1335) if hasattr(gdb, 'printing'):

According to
https://sourceware.org/gdb/news/
GDB 7.3 was released in 2011.

Whilst older Emacs versions may be used by users for a long time 'in the
wild', it seems unlikely that a developer would use such an old GDB.

It would simplify this part of .gdbinit if we could remove this whole if
statement, and also make it more readable so we can add more Python
commands for GDB for Emacs.

Paul, any comments or suggestions, WDYT?

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From: Jeremy Bryant <jb <at> jeremybryant.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 79341-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: 30.2; Outdated Python conditional in .gdbinit
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:34:14 +0100

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 2025-08-31 10:45, Jeremy Bryant wrote:
>>>> It would simplify this part of .gdbinit if we could remove this whole if
>>>> statement
>>> It's just a single "if" line, plus indenting some following lines. How
>>> much simplification would it really be if we removed one line and
>>> unindented the rest?
>> Is this a fundamental change?  No.  It would be a fairly trivial
>> amendment to your contribution, as you indeed describe, to improve
>> readability a little.  Should we wait?
>
> Sounds like we should wait, if peoplestill want to debug on Solaris
> 10. I'm not seeing enough improvement to readability (unindent by one
> level is not much of an improvement) to justify cutting off an
> otherwise-supported platform.

OK, we can revisit the suggestion at some future point.

Closing the bug number for the time being.

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