Re: MI: -var-list-children --simple-values

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:50:19PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 14:17, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > ISTR Daniel J wanted --simple-values for consistency with
> > -stack-list-locals. As it's easy to fix, I suggest doing that.  
> 
> There are many things that are easy to fix, but it does not mean we need to 
> keep unused functionality.
> 
> Perhaps Dan can comment why he really needed --simple-values.

I felt that it was useful; I still do.  Takeup of new MI features by
IDEs seems to be a very slow process, since many support the system's
installed GDB (which may be several revisions behind); reports of MI
features that don't work also seems to be a bit spotty.  So, honestly,
I wouldn't read too much into it that no one noticed.  It was new in
GDB 6.4.

> > I also note 
> > a mistake in the error message.  Both are fixed below.
> 
> I don't see any regression test for this crash. Are you going to
> provide one?

I'd appreciate it if one of you could do that, yes.  Shame on me, I
didn't write one at the time.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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