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Re: [patch] allow switching stacks
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>
- Cc: jim dot houston at comcast dot net, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 09 Mar 2004 08:07:21 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch] allow switching stacks
- References: <m3y8qbp650.fsf@new.localdomain> <404CFA95.30204@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:58:29 +0000
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
>
> Good idea, and nice implementation. My only suggestions are in
> the user interface realm. I'm thinking something like
> "non-contiguous stacks" would be more meaningful than "multiple
> stacks" (there's really still only one stack, it's just broken
> into two segments). Same goes for switch-stacks; it's a bit
> non-intuitive to me. segmented-stack? discontiguous-stack?
I share Muchael's concerns (I'd use "non-contiguous stack" in both
instances). On top of that, if this patch is approved, it needs a
corresponding patch for the manual, since we'd be introducing a new
command.