Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables

Joel Brobecker
2009-09-21T16:27:55Z

> > 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.

This is just my 2 cents, of course, but Nick's suggestion to separate
locals from arguments seems fairly reasonable. Why not add the field
now, and make that feature available now, rather than later? I can
certainly see why a front-end would want that separation. Seems like
Nick, who AFAIK helps maintaining emacs/gud, would use it.

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Joel