From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8181 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2011 17:21:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 8168 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2011 17:21:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:21:06 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7UHL0c3028503 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:21:00 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7UHKxj8007940; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:21:00 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p7UHKwrC018532; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:20:58 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: =?utf-8?B?QW5kcsOpIFDDtm5pdHo=?= Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] 12843 References: <4E56C5A0.60802@redhat.com> <201108301021.15313.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> <201108301833.47083.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:21:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <201108301833.47083.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> (=?utf-8?Q?=22An?= =?utf-8?Q?dr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz=22's?= message of "Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:33:46 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00615.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Andr=C3=A9" =3D=3D Andr=C3=A9 P=C3=B6nitz = writes: Tom> Do you generate MI-compliant output from Python? I'm curious. Andr=C3=A9> Sort of. Originally it was fully compliant, then extra fields h= ad been Andr=C3=A9> added and additional commas became "legal" (to save a few cycles Andr=C3=A9> for the check whether they are necessary). But it's still prett= y MI-ish. I ask because I occasionally wonder whether it would be useful to add support for converting (a subset of) Python objects to MI. Phil might need it for breakpoint_ops; but I think we were thinking in terms of a one-off, where a generic facility might be better. Tom