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Re: [PATCH] MI: lvalues and variable_editable

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:04:53AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  >                                                                        GDB,
>  > as it stands, allows you to create a variable object in any frame, and your
>  > patch does not work with that. So, either creating variable objects in any
>  > frame should be disallowed, 
> 
> Actually I think that would be a good idea.  Generally a user would create a
> watch expression in the frame he's examining.  If not, the frontend would have
> to prompt for the frame.  Does KDevelop do this?

If you have a GUI with a stack pane, it may be showing a lot of frames
at once.  Why force the front end to select a frmae before creating
the varobj?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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