Re: [mi] -list-features

[Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>]

On Friday 31 August 2007 11:27:19 Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > How about this:
>  > 
>  >         -list-features Returns a list of particular features of the MI
>  >                 protocol that this version of gdb implements.  A feature can
>  >                 be a command, or a new field in an output of some command,
>  >                 or even an important bugfix.  While a frontend can sometimes
>  >                 detect presence of a feature at runtime, it is easier to
>  >                 perform detection at debugger startup.
>  > 
>  > 		The command returns a list of strings, with each string naming
>  > 		an available feature. Each returned string is just a name, it
>  > 		does not have any internal structure. The list of possible
>  > 		feature names is given below.
>  > 
>  > 		The current list of features is:
>  > 
>  >                 - 'frozen-varobjs' -- indicates presence of -var-set-frozen
>  >                 command, as well as possible presense of the 'frozen' field
>  >                 in the output of -varobj-create.
> 
> You've lost me.  This is plain text documentation for a command which you
> want to implement now but populate later.  Something like:
> 
> (gdb)
> -list-features
> ^done,features=[]
> 
> AFAICS it won't currently return 'frozen-varobjs.  Since everyone seems
> agreeable to the general idea why not just submit when the patch (source and
> documentation) are complete?

Now you've lost me. Is this (plain text) documentation fine with you, or not?

- Volodya