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From: "André Pönitz" <andre.poenitz@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Mircea Gherzan <mircea.gherzan@intel.com>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, vladimir@codesourcery.com,
	marc.khouzam@ericsson.com,	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	mgherzan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] MI: fix the result of -break-insert with multiple locations
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130307205351.GA4065@klara.mpi.htwm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5138C0F7.6060703@intel.com>

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:31:51PM +0100, Mircea Gherzan wrote:
> On 02.03.2013 17:53, André Pönitz wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Mircea Gherzan wrote:
> >>The current MI output when printing a breakpoint with multiple locations
> >>is not conformant to the MI specification:
> >>
> >>   bkpt={number="1", ...},{number="1.1", ...},{number="1.2", ...}
> >>
> >>This patch fixes this issue by moving the locations to a list inside the
> >>first tuple:
> >>
> >>   bkpt={number="1", ... , locations=[{number="1.1", ...}, ...]}
> >
> >This breaks GDB frontends that parse the original output.
> 
> This has been discussed before.

As in "we ignored your input".

> Marc has confirmed that Eclipse does not parse the original output either.

How does the non-affectedness of a specific frontend matter
in that context? Are there first and second class citizens 
when it comes to gdb frontends?

This breaks frontends that parses the original output and do
(obviously...) not understand your changed version.

Have fun.
Andre'


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-07 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-28 18:30 Mircea Gherzan
2013-02-28 18:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] MI: add tests for breakpoints " Mircea Gherzan
2013-02-28 18:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] MI: document the format " Mircea Gherzan
2013-02-28 18:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-02 16:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] MI: fix the result of -break-insert " André Pönitz
2013-03-07 16:32   ` Mircea Gherzan
2013-03-07 20:54     ` André Pönitz [this message]
2013-03-07 21:44       ` Marc Khouzam
2013-03-08  0:15         ` André Pönitz
2013-03-11 15:06           ` Mircea Gherzan

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