From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2344 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2012 13:31:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact archer-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Sender: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Received: (qmail 2331 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jun 2012 13:31:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Tom Tromey To: Keith Seitz Cc: archer@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Explicit Linespecs Branch Created References: <4FD6548D.3050701@redhat.com> <87haucs9yo.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4FE37137.7000408@redhat.com> <8762akl7tz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:31:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <8762akl7tz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:37:44 -0600") Message-ID: <87txxu2qiz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2012-q2/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 Keith> IOW, I am/was trying to avoid implementing backend gdb APIs in terms Keith> of the command line. Tom> I see. Well, that does make sense. It just seems like it will be hard Tom> to use from the CLI. I've been thinking about this a bit. It seems to me that making the user interface harder to use for the sake of implementation cleanliness (without additional factors like scalability) is the wrong tradeoff. Tom