Re: [RFC] Alternate approach to keeping convenience variables

Andrew STUBBS
2006-01-04T12:17:00Z

Hi, I'm back!

Thanks for this work. I do not follow exactly how it works (I suppose
that's the difference between somebody who knows GDB and somebody who
does not) but it does appear to solve the problem at hand.

One point though - why is it ok to leak the memory? This seems like bad
practice to me - I mean, types can be arbitrarily large and, even if
they are typically small, the variables may be rewritten many many times
(particularly by scripts with loops). Are you saying that they will be
actually leaked or just left for some sort of garbage collection?

Otherwise excellent - just what I need. I'll be very happy when this
goes in.

Thanks again

Andrew Stubbs