From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6077 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2019 13:20:52 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 6066 invoked by uid 89); 1 Jul 2019 13:20:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-HELO: mail-wr1-f65.google.com Received: from mail-wr1-f65.google.com (HELO mail-wr1-f65.google.com) (209.85.221.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:20:51 +0000 Received: by mail-wr1-f65.google.com with SMTP id v14so13841915wrr.4 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2019 06:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from ?IPv6:2001:8a0:f913:f700:4c97:6d52:2cea:997b? ([2001:8a0:f913:f700:4c97:6d52:2cea:997b]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u18sm13806493wmd.19.2019.07.01.06.20.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=AEAD-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Jul 2019 06:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: ui_out format strings for fields and styles (Re: [PATCH] Style "pwd" output) To: Tom Tromey References: <20190605020116.1550-1-tom@tromey.com> <1ee4bd6b-4cdf-f3a9-74af-0843bf123a8b@redhat.com> <87lfygi1x0.fsf@tromey.com> <32872d6a-15d6-9718-59ae-957694e114c9@redhat.com> <87imtjhj6b.fsf@tromey.com> <625cd0ba-058d-d4bf-8ba3-8676f335b0f3@redhat.com> <87blzbep47.fsf@tromey.com> <2180f72f-da10-5333-90a1-666ba3bd145e@redhat.com> <87imtjbrmx.fsf@tromey.com> <871s056yjw.fsf@tromey.com> <87wohx5hir.fsf@tromey.com> <4e543ef2-eec3-b82c-a84a-a107e1ef2bc2@redhat.com> <3ff7dd5c-334b-3bcc-e43e-a350b3008304@redhat.com> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: <6015a6bc-9941-fee3-b981-b2aef1ff683b@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:20:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3ff7dd5c-334b-3bcc-e43e-a350b3008304@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-07/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 On 7/1/19 2:17 PM, Pedro Alves wrote: > On 7/1/19 1:55 PM, Pedro Alves wrote: > >> There are two other things that I wanted to experiment/try first. >> >> - See if we could get rid of the need for the ".ptr ()" calls. >> >> - See about implementing support for some ui field type other than >> integers, to make sure that we're not missing something. > Here's a patch for thing #2. It adds a string_field type. I pushed the 4 patches I shown today to the users/palves/format_strings-experiment branch now. (left users/palves/format_strings untouched.) Thanks, Pedro Alves