Re: [PATCH:MI] Return a subset of a variable object's children

Nick Roberts
2008-05-28T22:24:03Z

> I think that the current data structures surely allow to implement the
> behaviour that is useful for frontends. I raise some questions about the
> original version of your patch in
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gdb.patches/40676
>
> which you did not respond to. Did you miss that email?

I think these question were addressed in subsequent e-mails.

1) I now post patches in unified diff format.

2) I explained why I thought the stride was useful, e.g.,
(http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-04/msg00680.html)

3) I acknowledged that the children should be reported in order
(http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-04/msg00675.html)
and my last patch did this using linked lists.

> Do you plan to have
> the original version of your patch adjusted and checked in?

No. I couldn't get it to report the additional children/update in the correct
order using vectors.

> For the record, the usecases that I think will benefit from this new
> functionality are outlined in:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gdb.patches/40726

I think the use cases are more extensive but I don't currently have any
user feedback to back up that assertion.

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