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Re: More screen shots...
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: More screen shots...
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:49:28 -0400
- CC: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>, Ian Roxborough <irox at redhat dot com>, insight at sources dot redhat dot com, Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat Canada
- References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E360@IIS000> <87wv26b23x.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Bernard" == Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com> writes:
>
> Bernard> What I've done in a GUI for GDB (but one that's by far not as
> Bernard> nice as Insight) i systematically ask GDB for a backtrace and
> Bernard> place it in a combobox in the toolbar (I appended a
> Bernard> screenshot to give an idea of the result; sorry I can't just
> Bernard> place a link).
>
> Bernard> Sure this has some cost (one backtrace), but it proves quite
> Bernard> useful.
>
> This seems useful. Maybe we could do the backtrace lazily so that we
> only incur the cost when it is needed.
>
What about having the summary stack controls and allowing one to open
the extra bar with the more detailed one? The overhead would be
equivalent to someone opening the stack window. This will be nice
for multi-thread debugging.
Oh Boy, I just remember now. We need to find a place for a thread
selection combo box. Isn't that right Keith?
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