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Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo.
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell at mentor dot com>
- To: <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:30:25 -0400
- Subject: Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo.
I was recently looking at the problem of displaying global and local variables from an IDE front-end that uses MI (Eclipse).
I noticed that gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo has a list of what appear to be really useful MI functions for working with symbols.
Unfortunately all of those functions are wraped with @ignore/@end ignore.
None of these MI functions are implemented in gdb/mi/mi-symbol-cmds.c, and never have been (according to the CVS history, and yes I did work my way back through the DOS 8.3 rename into the attic).
What's the story with these hidden, but documented MI functions?
These functions look like they would be really useful to an front-end that wants to display variables that have global scope.
Comments?
Cheers,
Carlos.
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