From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31080 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2006 02:30:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 31068 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jun 2006 02:30:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:29:40 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-112-224.snap.net.nz [202.124.112.224]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA92D758A54; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:29:34 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id C891B1D3550; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:28:54 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17540.59493.226753.903418@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:30:00 -0000 To: Bob Rossi Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: starting gdb/mi from FE In-Reply-To: <20060606020143.GG10045@brasko.net> References: <17540.53854.931145.771214@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20060606013334.GE10045@brasko.net> <17540.57500.193504.704637@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20060606020143.GG10045@brasko.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.20 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 > > > I think it's bad to > > > provide functionality that only works with makeshift parsers. > > > > I think we need to be practical and work within our limited resources. If > > a corporate sponsor comes along then maybe we can consider such general > > principles. > > I'm confused, the patch I provided is about 20 lines of code. If you are > talking about generating a parser, I've also done that with a 300 line > bison input file. I think I'm misunderstanding you here. Yes, but I don't think your patch will work. My proposal is also simple but, as you say, doesn't address all eventualities. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob