[MI] -stack-list-variables

Vladimir Prus vladimir@codesourcery.com
Tue Sep 29 06:35:00 GMT 2009


Vladimir Prus wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 September 2009 Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
>>  > > 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.
>> 
>> That's exactly what I have done.
> 
> Hmm, I must have missed. You never said that you want to implement this-and-that
> in Emacs, and explained why and how. What you said was you consider the separation
> "useful", which is considerably more weaker statement.
> 
> Are you actually planning on implementing locals/arg separation in Emacs in
> observable timeframe?

Nick,

can you please answer the question above? I would like to merge this to 7.0
branch, and for that, I need to close this question.

- Volodya




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