Re: Convenience functions (was: Re: New scope checking patch)

Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-11-04T22:23:59Z

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:35:59PM -0200, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> Since Tromey mentioned that Rob's patch is not correct in its current
> form, I'm thinking of implementing it in python and use it to direct my
> choice of next python patches to post here (i.e., my next set of python
> patches would have the goal of making a scope checking script work).
> Then I could work on testcases and documentation. What do you think?

Sounds reasonable to me.

> The upside is that this will help focus the python submissions to
> enabling a useful functionality as soon as possible. The downside (or
> maybe it's not a downside at all) is that a scope checking feature is
> being asked by users, so it would mean that such python script would
> preferably be shipped in GDB releases...

Yes - we've got to get the mechanism to do that in place anyway.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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