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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: jingham@apple.com, dewar@adacore.com, ghost@cs.msu.su,
	        gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: MI: performance of getting stack arguments
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uacaixamj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17477.23561.267057.180@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick 	Roberts on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:37:13 +1200)

> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:37:13 +1200
> Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>, 	Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> I agree.  The requirements are different: with CLI the user will generally type
> bt at a specific point in the session, while with MI the command
> "-stack-list-frames" gets sent every time the UI needs to update.

These are not _requirements_, these are _use_cases_.  The requirements
are the same: to be fast enough for most uses.  E.g., nothing prevents
me from including "bt" in the commands list of a breakpoint, which
would force GDB to produce the backtrace on each stop.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-19  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-18 16:40 Vladimir Prus
2006-04-18 16:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-18 21:15   ` Jim Ingham
2006-04-19  7:55   ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-19 16:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-20  8:50     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-26 14:10       ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-26 14:59         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-26 18:02           ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-26 18:17             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-18 19:11 ` Jim Ingham
2006-04-18 21:35   ` Robert Dewar
2006-04-18 21:37     ` Jim Ingham
2006-04-19  6:08       ` Robert Dewar
2006-04-19  7:30         ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-19  6:11       ` Nick Roberts
2006-04-19  8:45         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-04-19  9:02           ` Nick Roberts
2006-04-19 12:40       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-20 10:22         ` Jim Ingham
2006-04-19  6:20   ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-19  8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii

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