Re: [RFC] Use of create_new_frame from 'frame'.

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 07/08/2015 08:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:09:44 +0100
>> From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
>>
>> I wonder then if there's a better way to offer this feature.  The two
>> possible choices (other suggestions welcome) are:
>>
>>   1. Create a new command 'create-frame' that takes one or two
>>      arguments, and always creates and selects a new frame new frame.
>>      The frame command no longer creates new frames.
>>
>>   2. Make 'frame' take an (optional) flag (like 'x', or
>>      'disassemble'), so a user can now say:
>>         frame /c STACK-ADDR PC-ADDR
>>      in order to create (and select) a new frame.  Without the /c flag
>>      no new frames are created.  With the flag only new frames are
>>      created, old frames are not selected.
> 
> You could also ask the user for confirmation, when the command is
> going to create a new frame.

I'd rather the explicit approach, because querying works when
in interactive mode, but not with scripts.

(and because I see no benefit to the current overloading
of number/address, only downsides.)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves