Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables

Vladimir Prus
2009-09-29T06:35:10Z

Vladimir Prus wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 September 2009 Nick Roberts wrote:
>
>> > > But what would happen the day a front-end starts caring? Are they
>> > > going to have to send 2 MI commands to get the info?
>> >
>> > No. The frontend author would write an email to gdb@sources.redhat.com,
>> > explaining the reasons, and a new field will be added as result. That's
>> > how I'd prefer MI to evolve, as opposed to adding information ahead of
>> > the time.
>>
>> That's exactly what I have done.
>
> Hmm, I must have missed. You never said that you want to implement this-and-that
> in Emacs, and explained why and how. What you said was you consider the separation
> "useful", which is considerably more weaker statement.
>
> Are you actually planning on implementing locals/arg separation in Emacs in
> observable timeframe?

Nick,

can you please answer the question above? I would like to merge this to 7.0
branch, and for that, I need to close this question.

- Volodya