Re: [Patch] add implementation of stack-info-frame MI command

Andrew Cagney
2002-07-25T23:38:02Z

See my post to GDB@. I think this should be handled as an event and not
as a command.

The user entering a command like ``up'' needs to trigger the event
notification anyway.

enjoy,
Andrew

> While using the MI, I noticed that there is a real problem trying to find
> the current stack level. One could get the stack and look at the level
> value of the first frame or parse the results of a cli frame command,
> but these both seem ugly. What is needed is a stack-info-frame that
> returns the current stack level to complement the stack-select-frame
> which selects a stack level.
>
> Here is what I propose:
>
> -stack-info-frame
> ^done,level="0"
> (gdb)
> -stack-select-frame 5
> ^done
> (gdb)
> -stack-info-frame
> ^done,level="5"
> (gdb)
>
> The stack-info-frame command is currently unimplemented
> even though it appears in the documentation, so there is
> no way this patch could break anything. The only objection
> I could think of was that folks might want the command
> to return all the info about the current frame, like the
> stack-list-frames method. That is actually not needed since
> one could always run stack-list-frames and then select
> a stack level out of the returned frames. In real code,
> it is better to query the whole stack as opposed to changing
> the stack, doing a query of the current frame, changing the
> stack, then doing a query, and so on.
>
> I forgot to mention in my last patch that I sent in my FSF
> copyright paperwork, so that should not stand in the way
> of incorporating my patches any longer.
>
> cheers
> Mo