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Re: [RFC] Use of create_new_frame from 'frame'.
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Andrew Burgess <andrew dot burgess at embecosm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:42:08 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Use of create_new_frame from 'frame'.
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:09:44 +0100
> From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
>
> I wonder then if there's a better way to offer this feature. The two
> possible choices (other suggestions welcome) are:
>
> 1. Create a new command 'create-frame' that takes one or two
> arguments, and always creates and selects a new frame new frame.
> The frame command no longer creates new frames.
>
> 2. Make 'frame' take an (optional) flag (like 'x', or
> 'disassemble'), so a user can now say:
> frame /c STACK-ADDR PC-ADDR
> in order to create (and select) a new frame. Without the /c flag
> no new frames are created. With the flag only new frames are
> created, old frames are not selected.
You could also ask the user for confirmation, when the command is
going to create a new frame.