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Re: [MI] -stack-list-variables
On Monday 21 September 2009 Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > If the front end doesn't care, it can always group these together.
> >
> > I was saying that all frontends I know do not seem to care, therefore it
> > does not seem like we should care.
>
> But what would happen the day a front-end starts caring? Are they
> going to have to send 2 MI commands to get the info?
No. The frontend author would write an email to gdb@sources.redhat.com,
explaining the reasons, and a new field will be added as result. That's
how I'd prefer MI to evolve, as opposed to adding information ahead of
the time.
- Volodya