Re: [RFA] Allow to enable run/stop notifications for function calls.

Vladimir Prus
2008-05-02T16:03:28Z

On Friday 02 May 2008 19:59:07 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:51:48PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> >
> > I've already posted patches to produce more accurate *stopped notifications
> > in MI and introduce *running notification. Those notification are not produced
> > during inferior function calls, as it's very likely than an unprepared frontend
> > will try to refetch everything in response to those *stopped, re-evaluating all
> > expression again, calling functions again, etc.
> >
> > This patch allows a frontend to request the notification for function
> > calls to be still emitted, by using
> >
> > -enable-feature infcall-run-stop-notifications
> >
> > OK?
>
> I'm still not convinced we need -enable-feature for anything that
> -gdb-set and -gdb-show can not handle.

Is -gdb-show output specified in any way? Is it subject to i18n?

> What do you think about bundling this sort of update into MI version
> 3? That cuts down on the number of possible knobs for output, which
> is IMO important.

Well, this might be good idea, provided everybody concerned agree that
MI3 will be rapidly changing until futher notice and *no* compatibility
will be guaranteed until that point.

- Volodya