Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables

Nick Roberts
2009-09-20T22:05:02Z

> > How about the format below?:
> >
> > -stack-list-variables --no-values
> > ^done,variables={args=[{name="i"},{name="j"}],
> > locals=[{name="asdf"},{name="m"},{name="zxcv"},{name="qwert"}]}
>
> Why would frontend care about which are locals and which are arguments? I don't
> think I saw any GUI than distinguish between those in variables view.

CLI treats them as completely different ("info args", "info locals") as MI
did previously (-stack-list-locals, -stack-list-arguments). To the programmer,
I think they are quite different: argument values are passed in, local values
aren't. If the front end doesn't care, it can always group these together.

> Even
> if we decide this information is necessary, would it not be better to present it
> like this:
>
> ^done,variables=[{name="i", arg="1"},{name="asdf"}]
>
> as this format is more extensible in case some other frontend might need
> even more finer details?

I don't see how this helps. Breaking locals and args down further would require
a new command for backward compatibilty reasons.

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