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Re: [RFA] Allow to enable run/stop notifications for function calls.
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 11:59:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Allow to enable run/stop notifications for function calls.
- References: <200805011751.48573.vladimir@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:51:48PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
> I've already posted patches to produce more accurate *stopped notifications
> in MI and introduce *running notification. Those notification are not produced
> during inferior function calls, as it's very likely than an unprepared frontend
> will try to refetch everything in response to those *stopped, re-evaluating all
> expression again, calling functions again, etc.
>
> This patch allows a frontend to request the notification for function
> calls to be still emitted, by using
>
> -enable-feature infcall-run-stop-notifications
>
> OK?
I'm still not convinced we need -enable-feature for anything that
-gdb-set and -gdb-show can not handle.
What do you think about bundling this sort of update into MI version
3? That cuts down on the number of possible knobs for output, which
is IMO important.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery