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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: MI -break-info command issues
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> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:44:49 -0500
> From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> 2. The output of the command looks like this:
> > ^done,BreakpointTable={nr_rows="1",nr_cols="6",
> > hdr=[{width="3",alignment="-1",col_name="number",colhdr="Num"}
> > {width="14",alignment="-1",col_name="type",colhdr="Type"}
> > {width="4",alignment="-1",col_name="disp",colhdr="Disp"}
> > {width="3",alignment="-1",col_name="enabled",colhdr="Enb"}
> > {width="10",alignment="-1",col_name="addr",colhdr="Address"}
> > {width="40",alignment="2",col_name="what",colhdr="What"}],
> > body=[bkpt={number="2",type="breakpoint",disp="keep",enabled="y",
> > addr="0x08048464",func="main",file="main.cpp",line="6",times="1"}]}
> > 
> > What is the point of producing spreadsheet-like output with columns and
> > column heading and column alignment? I'd expect that any GUI frontend will
> > have some specific representation and just ignore that extra formatting.
> > Why generate it at all?
> 
> I agree, this output has always been useless to me. I would be happy to
> see it go away.

I DON'T agree, and I think it would be a grave mistake to have this
output go away.  About the worst thing a program can do is have some
information and not reveal it.  Skipping unneeded information is easy;
restoring missing one is next to impossible.