From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1407 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2007 04:42:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 1395 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2007 04:42:37 -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; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:42:33 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (214.62.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.62.214]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D0E3DA074; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:42:25 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9D30B8FC6D; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:42:23 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18217.22830.779356.594822@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:42:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] MI: lvalues and variable_editable In-Reply-To: <20071030111454.GA14499@caradoc.them.org> References: <18210.27153.559569.601092@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200710271615.23579.ghost@cs.msu.su> <18214.46470.57856.84852@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200710301222.03459.ghost@cs.msu.su> <18215.4053.151140.671560@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20071030111454.GA14499@caradoc.them.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.0.50.38 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 > > For a start -stack-list-frames (unlike `bt') doesn't list arguments or > > locals so you couldn't create such a watch expression with a single mouse > > click. > > Of course you could. The front end probably fetched the list of > locals for you when it built its GUI frame display. I'm not sure of your terminology but "GUI frame display" to me would mean the locals (and possibly function arguments) of the _selected_ frame. In any case, I'm proposing a patch that would not change the possibility of doing what you are suggesting may be done. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob