From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090921162732.GZ8910@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909212002.44063.vladimir@codesourcery.com>
> > But what would happen the day a front-end starts caring? Are they
> > going to have to send 2 MI commands to get the info?
>
> No. The frontend author would write an email to gdb@sources.redhat.com,
> explaining the reasons, and a new field will be added as result. That's
> how I'd prefer MI to evolve, as opposed to adding information ahead of
> the time.
This is just my 2 cents, of course, but Nick's suggestion to separate
locals from arguments seems fairly reasonable. Why not add the field
now, and make that feature available now, rather than later? I can
certainly see why a front-end would want that separation. Seems like
Nick, who AFAIK helps maintaining emacs/gud, would use it.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-19 10:12 Vladimir Prus
2009-09-19 10:13 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-19 10:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-19 11:15 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-19 15:45 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-19 15:46 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-19 22:41 ` -stack-list-variables Nick Roberts
2009-09-20 6:18 ` [MI] -stack-list-variables Vladimir Prus
2009-09-20 22:05 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-21 5:14 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-21 7:13 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-21 7:39 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-21 15:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-21 16:02 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-21 16:27 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2009-09-21 16:54 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-21 17:04 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-21 17:17 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-21 17:24 ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-21 17:03 ` Marc Khouzam
2009-09-21 22:10 ` Nick Roberts
2009-09-22 5:31 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-22 14:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-09-29 6:35 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-09-29 23:27 ` Nick Roberts
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