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Re: feature idea: upto

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>, Project Archer <archer at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:50:46 -0600
Subject: Re: feature idea: upto
References: <20090702223351.64F00404FD@magilla.sf.frob.com><8f2776cb0907230000q1b8dc57chc417430fba0f570f@mail.gmail.com><20090723181434.12C1580560@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>

>>>>> "Roland" == Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

Roland> But non-nesting "end" parsing means I can't write:
[...]

This should work.  It is a bug that it doesn't.

Roland> In particular "catch throw" is comically no more useful than "b
Roland> __cxa_throw" and it would seem most natural for it to do
Roland> something like the "up" automagically.

We discussed this a little.  My recollection is that Daniel tried this
but concluded that MI clients get confused when gdb stops and the
selected frame is not the newest frame.  So, some kind of MI extension
or change is needed.

I don't think we pursued it past that, though it is still nominally on
our to-do list.  Also it is:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9599

Tom

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