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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Eran Ifrah <eran.ifrah@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB/MI - var-update/create BUG
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC861C4.2060307@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikcYt5WRD-Nz+K5OfuaviT31VVWFofzQV=yRsuf@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/27/2010 1:17 PM, Eran Ifrah wrote:

>> normally you want to track that _variable_, not that _name_.
>> Anywhere you are.

I agree with that viewpoint
>>
> Not really, thats depends on what you are trying to achieve - since
> variable object were designed to ease the task of the IDE, then I
> say this is incorrect (at least to me). In my case, I actually never
> want to track 'variable object' I want to track 'expressions' in the
> code.

OK, but this seems quite bizarre to me, and I would not want GDB
to do this by default


      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-27 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-26 22:02 Eran Ifrah
2010-10-27  7:50 ` Andrew Burgess
2010-10-27  8:09   ` Eran Ifrah
2010-10-27 17:28 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-10-27 17:18   ` Eran Ifrah
2010-10-27 17:31     ` Robert Dewar [this message]

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