Re: [PATCH:MI] Return a subset of a variable object's children

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > I think that the current data structures surely allow to implement the
 > behaviour that is useful for frontends. I raise some questions about the
 > original version of your patch in
 > 
 > 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gdb.patches/40676
 > 
 > which you did not respond to. Did you miss that email? 

I think these question were addressed in subsequent e-mails.

1) I now post patches in unified diff format.

2) I explained why I thought the stride was useful, e.g., 
   (http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-04/msg00680.html)

3) I acknowledged that the children should be reported in order 
   (http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-04/msg00675.html)
   and my last patch did this using linked lists.

 >                                                         Do you plan to have
 > the original version of your patch adjusted and checked in?

No.  I couldn't get it to report the additional children/update in the correct
order using vectors.
 
 > For the record, the usecases that I think will benefit from this new
 > functionality are outlined in:
 > 
 > 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gdb.patches/40726

I think the use cases are more extensive but I don't currently have any
user feedback to back up that assertion.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob