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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:10:29AM -0700, Marc Gauthier wrote:
> As we discussed offline yesterday, this has performance implications
> on the GUI, which would have to recreate the varobjs every time which
> is time consuming.

Is the performance implication the main reason?  If so, I'd rather we
fix that instead.  I know Nick and/or Vladimir suggested "-var-list
--locals" at one point in an earlier discussion of a related problem.
That's probably quite a lot faster, especially if we can notify the
front end when it enters a new frame.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery