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Re: [RFC] Change "set print frame-arguments"'s default to scalars
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:32:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Change "set print frame-arguments"'s default to scalars
- References: <20090324212730.GU9472@adacore.com> <m3k56aubmq.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Also, Jan had the excellent idea that we could limit the output
> (truncate it after some number of characters and add "...") for a
> given value, rather than have the selection be all-or-none. This
> could easily be done by making a new kind of output stream, and then
> using it when printing a frame in stack.c. Let me know what you think
> of this; I can implement it if people think it is a good idea.
I've seen various Scheme interpreters do this. I like it.