Re: Add fullname to breakpoint output

[Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>]

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 09:28  AM, Andrew Cagney wrote:

>
>> In my view, the CLI should aim at minimalism, since a human being is 
>> scanning it and too much information would be confusing.  The MI is 
>> intended to be scanned by a program, so we should feel free to cram 
>> in whatever might be useful - within reason of course...  For this 
>> reason, when we found PB needed an extra bit of data which might not 
>> be so useful to the CLI user, we would just add it to the MI only.  
>> This is a little unsatisfying in implementation, since it means you 
>> have
>> if (ui_out_is_mi_like (uiout))
>>   {
>>   }
>> scattered through non-interpreter specific code.  But this is better 
>> than cluttering up the CLI output for stuff that is more interesting 
>> to a front-end...
>
> Just FYI, the current intermingling of CLI and MI code is short term - 
> get something working.  Medium to long term, the two need to be more 
> cleanly separated.  Related to this is separating more of the CLI from 
> core GDB.
>

Yes, this is a desirable goal.  Have you thought about how to do this?

The best way I can think of is to have a new ui_out that builds up an 
intermediate representation for results that is easy to access randomly 
- making up real lists & dictionaries from the ui_out_field_xxx and 
list & table stuff.  Then we could banish ui_out_text & friends to the 
CLI commands to take the whole result, pull bits out in the order they 
expected, and annotate them with text, newlines, etc, in order to make 
a nice display.

In practice, this will be gnarly to get right, but you could do it 
incrementally by getting the intermediate rep. ui_out working, then fix 
the CLI commands one by one by swapping in the new ui_out for those 
commands you had fixed, and using the old CLI one for the commands you 
hadn't gotten working...

Idle Saturday speculation, maybe...

Jim
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Jim Ingham                                                           
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