Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables

Vladimir Prus
2009-09-21T16:02:51Z

On Monday 21 September 2009 Joel Brobecker wrote:

> > > If the front end doesn't care, it can always group these together.
> >
> > I was saying that all frontends I know do not seem to care, therefore it
> > does not seem like we should care.
>
> 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.

- Volodya