From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30194 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2006 16:34:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 30186 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Nov 2006 16:34:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:34:08 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GkkBh-0003kQ-50; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:34:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:34:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Frederic RISS Cc: Greg Watson , Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI: frozen variable objects Message-ID: <20061116163405.GA14214@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Frederic RISS , Greg Watson , Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200611161547.46997.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <1163690698.3219.199.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061116155504.GA11539@nevyn.them.org> <1163694319.3219.216.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1163694319.3219.216.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2006-11/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:25:19PM +0100, Frederic RISS wrote: > The CLI doesn't use varobjs to display values. Vladimir's change > wouldn't directly help here. I have hopes that some day, MI will be sufficient to implement most of the GDB CLI on top of it. This would be an amazing improvement in modularization of GDB. Having MI change as a side-effect of CLI UI changes is awful for maintaining compatibility. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery