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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: dje@google.com (Doug Evans)
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] add support for disabling individual pretty-printers
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vda112j2.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100520071212.E4A8484398@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> (Doug	Evans's message of "Thu, 20 May 2010 00:12:12 -0700 (PDT)")

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Doug> As discussed in irc, I'd like to add support for disabling
Doug> individual pretty-printers.  Broken printers do get installed
Doug> and/or the underlying data structures do change with developers
Doug> not always updating the pretty-printer.  When this happens
Doug> the consequences to a user's debugging session can be severe enough
Doug> that IMO we need to do *something*.

I was thinking that we could perhaps automatically disable any printer
that ever throws an exception.

That is pretty drastic though.

Doug> The approach below uses the presence of an "enabled" attribute
Doug> on the lookup function (or callable object!) to control the
Doug> enabling/disabling.

Doug> Ok to check in?

Yes, thanks.

Tom


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-02 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-20  7:34 Doug Evans
2010-05-20 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-20 19:57 ` Doug Evans
2010-06-02 22:41   ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-02 22:41 ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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