From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23817 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2008 15:17:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 23809 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2008 15:17:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:17:37 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5NFH83i018048; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:17:08 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5NFH7J8007765; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:17:07 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-10-3.bos.redhat.com [10.16.10.3]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5NFH6EA013547; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:17:06 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 51AC350811A; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:17:06 -0600 (MDT) To: Nick Roberts Cc: Joel Brobecker , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB Focus Group at the 2008 GCC Summit References: <20080619190942.GA3744@adacore.com> <18526.15596.855756.886158@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:17:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <18526.15596.855756.886158@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sun\, 22 Jun 2008 23\:52\:12 +1200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00216.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Roberts writes: >> | * Fix and continue: >> | >> | Perhaps try to implement this feature through the use of Python. >> | For instance, use python to build a return value, and return that. Nick> Apple GDB already has fix and continue. Couldn't that be used Nick> as a reference implementaton? I didn't take notes on this, but apparently fix-and-continue is kind of a pain to implement, and AFAICS needs IDE integration to work properly anyhow. The Python idea is more of a cute hack than a really serious thing. Tom