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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New method gdb.Frame.arch_name which return's the name of frame's architecture
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>>>>> "Siva" == Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com> writes:

Siva> Attached is a patch which adds a new method 'arch_name' to the class
Siva> gdb.Frame. This new method returns the name of the frame's
Siva> architecture as a string value.

Siva> Phil Muldoon (copied in this mail) asked sometime back whether I
Siva> intend to expose frame's architecture as an object by itself. All I
Siva> want for now is a way to get the name  of the frame's architecture.

If we think we'll want to expose the architecture in the long term --
and I think we probably do -- then it seems cleaner to me to introduce
the class now and just give it a single method.

Tom