From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: MI Development
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18142.16140.486009.379849@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709041740.22271.ghost@cs.msu.su>
> CLI commands bypass MI When a CLI command is issued, we don't see
> "^running". As result, frontend can easily think that gdb is waiting for
> commands while inferior is running.
With asynchronous operation, asynchronous CLI commands give the same MI output
that MI commands do.
> Variable objects and scopes
>
> Variable objects don't care much about C++ scopes. For example, it's not
> possible to create a variable object for a given expression in particular
> scope, which makes it impossible to accurately implement variable
> tooltips. Also, it's not possible to list all local variables in the entire
> function, which requires extraordinary effort to display all local variables
> as the enter scope and leave scope.
I'm just focussing on C as problems with C++ are too great for me.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
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2007-09-04 13:40 Vladimir Prus
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2007-09-04 15:06 ` Vladimir Prus
2007-09-05 5:31 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-09-05 5:40 ` Vladimir Prus
2007-09-05 6:29 ` Nick Roberts
2007-09-05 6:33 ` Vladimir Prus
2007-09-05 6:43 ` Nick Roberts
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