From: Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add extra 'info os' information types for Linux (trunk and 7.4)
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F020332.90308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22Q4iutX_pXs=nw9_FhQLiEGYux8bcwATqRbF5ZK4M2CUg@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/02/2012 06:15 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Pedro Alves<alves.ped@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It may be important to this discussion to consider that in its present form,
>> "info os" is more useful in its MI variant, where the frontend queries
>> GDB for what tables does the backend expose (with "info os"), and then
>> presents them in spreadsheet-like format, all without any hardcoding.
>> Exposing
>> more bits in the GNU/Linux backends serves the purpose of being the
>> reference implementation / proof-of-concept.
>
> IWBN to expose such functionality to python without python having to
> parse the CLI output (i.e. funnel the xml to python).
Certainly. "info os" is all about structured data. Whether exposed as
raw xml or as some other pre-parsed structured form is arguable; it
could be said to fit fit in the general theme of exposing mi
structures to python as well? Not sure.
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-02 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-12 18:29 [PATCH] Add extra 'info os' information types for Linux Kwok Cheung Yeung
2011-10-21 23:38 ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-23 18:00 ` Kwok Cheung Yeung
2011-12-27 4:56 ` [PATCH] Add extra 'info os' information types for Linux (trunk and 7.4) Stan Shebs
2011-12-27 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-27 21:30 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-12-27 23:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-28 20:48 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-12-28 0:05 ` Stan Shebs
2011-12-28 3:51 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-12-28 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 12:08 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-02 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-02 19:31 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-03 3:05 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-02 18:15 ` Doug Evans
2012-01-02 19:19 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2012-01-02 19:41 ` Tom Tromey
2011-12-29 20:34 ` Doug Evans
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