From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19165 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2007 05:31:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 19157 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Sep 2007 05:31:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:30:57 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (153.61.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.61.153]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C33B3D9F2D; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:30:55 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3BAF08FC6D; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:30:53 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18142.16140.486009.379849@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:31:00 -0000 To: Vladimir Prus Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI Development In-Reply-To: <200709041740.22271.ghost@cs.msu.su> References: <200709041740.22271.ghost@cs.msu.su> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.0.50.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-09/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 > 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