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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Cc: Mukesh Rathor <todfod@hotmail.com>,
		"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: offset of a struct field (qSymbol)
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081001222510.GA13722@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E3F758.6070701@vmware.com>

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:19:04PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> There is a syntax for gdb to send an expression to the
> server, and have the server evaluate it.  Perhaps we could
> simply reverse that syntax, so that the server could send
> an expression to gdb, and have gdb evaluate it and send
> back the answer?

IMO this is a bad idea.  It's too ambiguous, and it will breed remote
servers that rely on quirks in a particular version of the GDB
expression parser.

I've worked with some other debug tools that worked this way and it
was a terrible headache.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-01 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01  1:51 Mukesh Rathor
2008-10-01 11:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-10-01 22:20 ` Michael Snyder
2008-10-01 22:25   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-10-02  0:24     ` Mukesh Rathor

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