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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Introduce =target-changed MI notification
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:10:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Introduce =target-changed MI notification
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On 04/29/2016 08:40 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> So this patch/RFC is reviving this 4 years old thread.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gdb.patches/80427
>
> I'll do doc/NEWS changes once an agreement is reached.
I agree.
> An argument for such an event was that front-ends need to do a full
> refresh any time they single step or stop at a breakpoint. These
> operations happen in general much more frequently than the user
> changing data by hand. So if users don't complain about single step
> being slow, they shouldn't complain about changing a register being
> slow.
Right. Cagney expressed this idea too here:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7574
> PS: This is partly motivated by the new console work from Pedro. When
> we will have a good GDB console in Eclipse, users will be more likely to
> use it and therefore make register changes like this.
Yay! :-)
Thanks,
Pedro Alves