From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28529 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2009 16:02:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 28312 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Sep 2009 16:02:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:02:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 8728 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2009 16:02:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wind.localnet) (vladimir@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 21 Sep 2009 16:02:44 -0000 From: Vladimir Prus To: Joel Brobecker Subject: Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:02:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.24-24-generic; KDE/4.2.90; i686; svn-979530; 2009-06-10) Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200909191412.37692.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <20090921152746.GY8910@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20090921152746.GY8910@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909212002.44063.vladimir@codesourcery.com> 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: 2009-09/txt/msg00667.txt.bz2 On Monday 21 September 2009 Joel Brobecker wrote: > > > If the front end doesn't care, it can always group these together. > > > > I was saying that all frontends I know do not seem to care, therefore it > > does not seem like we should care. > > 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. - Volodya