From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10720 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2007 11:15:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 10711 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Oct 2007 11:15:04 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:14:58 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2A5981F1; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:14:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E028D980A5; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:14:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Imp3e-0003mA-6Z; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:14:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nick Roberts Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] MI: lvalues and variable_editable Message-ID: <20071030111454.GA14499@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Roberts , Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18215.4053.151140.671560@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) 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: 2007-10/txt/msg00816.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:04:53AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote: > > GDB, > > as it stands, allows you to create a variable object in any frame, and your > > patch does not work with that. So, either creating variable objects in any > > frame should be disallowed, > > Actually I think that would be a good idea. Generally a user would create a > watch expression in the frame he's examining. If not, the frontend would have > to prompt for the frame. Does KDevelop do this? If you have a GUI with a stack pane, it may be showing a lot of frames at once. Why force the front end to select a frmae before creating the varobj? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery