From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24534 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2009 16:04:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 24281 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Oct 2009 16:04:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_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, 20 Oct 2009 16:04:53 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9KG4n4w003743; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:04:50 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9KG4nQP008395; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:04:49 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (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 n9KG4mIm030034; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:04:48 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id E994137818E; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:04:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Paul Pluzhnikov Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC][patch] Allow to disassemble line. References: <20091002004954.8966C76B2B@ppluzhnikov.mtv.corp.google.com> <8ac60eac0910080916i5a2eb49an5f21f3b5c7fb96ef@mail.gmail.com> <20091008162350.GA8625@caradoc.them.org> <8ac60eac0910080952p46f15693x6ed339473db0139d@mail.gmail.com> <8ac60eac0910161607k55fee22cs379c5b7635d7b6a@mail.gmail.com> <8ac60eac0910191109v62794c33g6712090912b5c11f@mail.gmail.com> <20091019184853.GA18564@caradoc.them.org> Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:04:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20091019184853.GA18564@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:48:53 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2009-10/txt/msg00469.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: Daniel> We've got this layout here with nicely aligned columns but tons of Daniel> whitespace. In a halfway modern world we could do this with color. Daniel> Or bold the address of the current instruction. This would be a real Daniel> interface departure for GDB so I'm curious what others think of it. Daniel> (Yes, I'm thinking of Tufte, why do you ask?) I like it. Also, I know there is interest "out there" in colorizing gdb output: http://www.visophyte.org/blog/2009/03/04/gaudily-colorized-gdb-backtraces-woo/ I'm already looking forward to the day when people start posting GDB color themes. :-) Daniel> Another possibility would be to factor out the name of the function. Yeah. IME, repeating the function name over and over adds little value. Tom