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From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: MI: performance of getting stack arguments
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:30:00 -0000
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On Wednesday 19 April 2006 01:35, Robert Dewar wrote:

> > Also, in a GUI much more stuff is visible at once, so if each element is
> > too complex then the overall result is noisy and hard to use. Visual
> > Studio used by default to show a whole bunch of junk in the stack window
> > (pc, args, etc.) and way back when I used it I found it really hard to
> > look at for just this reason.  According to the 2005 Online docs, you
> > can turn all the other info off and display just the function name if
> > you want...
>
> Seems reasonable to have a much more streamlined call stack visible all
> the time, and a special command to decorate it with parameter values.

Good idea! I'll think about it.

Thanks,
Volodya