From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gdb-patches-return-60848-listarch-gdb-patches=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 21595 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2009 04:20:36 -0000
Received: (qmail 21587 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jan 2009 04:20:35 -0000
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=5.0 	tests=AWL,BARRACUDA_BRBL,BAYES_20,J_CHICKENPOX_37,SPF_SOFTFAIL
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il (HELO mtaout7.012.net.il) (84.95.2.19)     by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:20:29 +0000
Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KCX00E00IE0FW00@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:20:25 +0200 (IST)
Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.220.202]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KCX007GHIQ0LT50@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:20:25 +0200 (IST)
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:20:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][python] Fixes and improvements to gdb.Value.
In-reply-to: <1231024147.8380.166.camel@localhost.localdomain>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Message-id: <uk59bn1m9.fsf@gnu.org>
References: <1230949500.8380.140.camel@localhost.localdomain> <u7i5cohf7.fsf@gnu.org> <1231024147.8380.166.camel@localhost.localdomain>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <gdb-patches.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gdb-patches-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/>
List-Post: <mailto:gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org
X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2

> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:09:07 -0200
> 
> In a nutshell, my answer is "no, I don't think it should". :-)

Then perhaps having an index entry "gdb.history" is not important,
either?

> If @var{number} is negative, then @value{GDBN} will take its absolute value
> and count backward from the last element (i.e., the most recent element) to
> find the value to return.  If @var{number} is zero, then @value{GDBN} will
> return the most recent element.  If the element specified by @value{number}
> doesn't exist in the value history, a @code{RuntimeError} exception will be
> raised.
> 
> What do you think?

Sounds good.

> 2009-01-03  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* gdb.texinfo (Basic Python): Document gdb.history.

Thanks, I'm happy now.