From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15347 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2006 20:33:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 15338 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Feb 2006 20:33:07 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:33:05 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FACHm-0008Mr-Gm; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:33:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:47:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii , Vladimir Prus , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI: type prefixes for values Message-ID: <20060217203302.GG30881@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Vladimir Prus , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200602171724.03824.ghost@cs.msu.su> <20060217190418.GA27304@nevyn.them.org> <20060217193556.GA28754@nevyn.them.org> <20060217195909.GA19387@brasko.net> <20060217201837.GB19387@brasko.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060217201837.GB19387@brasko.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00222.txt.bz2 On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:18:37PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: > With that said, I think it would be necesary to allow the FE to know if > a particular field is supposed to be a number or string (etc). However, > parsing the contents of those strings is just not practical. If fields have a static "type" in this sense, maybe we can add it to the specification. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery