From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28157 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2007 20:53:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 28144 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jun 2007 20:53:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:53:19 +0000 Received: (qmail 6243 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2007 20:53:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 22 Jun 2007 20:53:18 -0000 To: matinata@br.ibm.com Cc: Ulrich Weigand , Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, eliz@gnu.org Subject: Re: [rfc/rfa] [4/4] SPU enhancements: GDB/MI extensions References: <200706142004.l5EK4vTO021141@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <1182392605.4974.58.camel@rmm-tp> From: Jim Blandy Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:53:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1182392605.4974.58.camel@rmm-tp> (Ricardo Marin Matinata's message of "Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:23:25 -0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2007-06/txt/msg00431.txt.bz2 If I understand right, many components of Eclipse are moving towards using the "Versatile Hierarchy" facility, which seems to be a general mechanism for displaying structured information. I don't understand the details very well, but would it be useful to have an XML- or MI-like form for describing hierarchies that Eclipse could just display without understanding the details much? GDB could stay ignorant of the details; it would simply pass through XML received directly from the target. That XML could be annotated to connect it with things GDB does know about, like SPEs, threads, and the like.