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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: -var-update using formatted value
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080118154059.GA22643@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA2DE096@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se>

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:28:04AM -0500, Marc Khouzam wrote:
> However, and I'm sorry for not letting this go, but what is the point of 
> -var-update returning the list of changed variables, if it is so efficient
> to go back to GDB to ask for values?  var-update might as well return nothing
> and the let the front-end ask for values again.
> (which is what I'll have to do if I can't cache all formats)

-var-update reads values from the target to check for changes.
-var-update-expression and -var-set-format do not.  If you do not
-var-update nothing will ever appear to change.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 15:13 Marc Khouzam
2008-01-11 17:40 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-11 18:31   ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-11 19:40     ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-11 22:26     ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-11 22:53       ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-11 22:59         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-11 23:40           ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-11 23:52             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-12  3:41               ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-12  3:49                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-14  2:36                   ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-15 18:43                     ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-15 19:36                       ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-15 20:32                         ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-17 14:57                           ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-17 18:05                             ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-18  1:35                             ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-18 15:31                               ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-18 15:41                                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-01-18 17:17                                   ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-18 17:53                                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-18 19:26                                       ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-18 21:10                                 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-18 22:21                                   ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-19  0:31                                     ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-19  1:46                                       ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-19  8:27                                         ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-19 11:17                                         ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-21 15:47                                       ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-21 21:44                                         ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-17 23:10                           ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-19 11:06                             ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-19 22:02                               ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-20 10:04                                 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-20 20:16                                   ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-20 20:28                                     ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-21 15:15                                       ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-21 22:35                                         ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-29 21:20                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-03 22:21                             ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-04  6:15                               ` Vladimir Prus
2008-01-18  0:53                     ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-18  2:13                       ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-18 21:00                         ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-18 22:04                           ` Marc Khouzam
2008-01-14  6:34               ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-29 21:26                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-29 23:49                   ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-30  0:04                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-30  4:25                       ` Nick Roberts

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