Re: [mi] -stack-list-arguments --simple-values

Vladimir Prus
2009-07-01T17:34:53Z

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 Nick Roberts wrote:

> > This patch makes -stack-list-arguments --simple-values work.
> > It looks like --simple-values (and friends) were accepted for
> > -stack-list-locals, but not for -stack-list-arguments. While
> > the utility of such human friendly spelling is unclear, for
> > a machine interface, it's even more confusing having 1/2
> > of relevant commands accept it.
>
> It's not immediately clear from the manual that SHOW-VALUES from
> -stack-list-arguments and PRINT-VALUES from -stack-list-locals are related.
> -stack-list-arguments takes three arguments while -stack-list-locals only
> takes -one. I think it would be nice to have one command,
> -stack-list-locals-and-args say, that lists both the locals and the arguments
> of the current frame:

It would be nice indeed. However, I have not entirely designed how a frontend
should actually work with locals and arguments, so I did not do anything
like that -- just fixed obvious inconsistency between existing commands.

- Volodya