From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>, Project Archer <archer@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: feature idea: upto
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m363djbaxl.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090723181434.12C1580560@magilla.sf.frob.com> (Roland McGrath's message of "Thu\, 23 Jul 2009 11\:14\:34 -0700 \(PDT\)")
>>>>> "Roland" == Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
Roland> But non-nesting "end" parsing means I can't write:
[...]
This should work. It is a bug that it doesn't.
Roland> In particular "catch throw" is comically no more useful than "b
Roland> __cxa_throw" and it would seem most natural for it to do
Roland> something like the "up" automagically.
We discussed this a little. My recollection is that Daniel tried this
but concluded that MI clients get confused when gdb stops and the
selected frame is not the newest frame. So, some kind of MI extension
or change is needed.
I don't think we pursued it past that, though it is still nominally on
our to-do list. Also it is:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9599
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-23 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-02 22:34 Roland McGrath
2009-07-07 16:18 ` [python] implement "upto" (Was: feature idea: upto) Tom Tromey
2009-07-09 4:25 ` Roland McGrath
2009-07-17 22:06 ` [python] implement "upto" Tom Tromey
2009-07-20 6:17 ` Roland McGrath
2009-07-23 7:00 ` feature idea: upto Jim Blandy
2009-07-23 18:15 ` Roland McGrath
2009-07-23 18:52 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-07-23 19:08 ` Roland McGrath
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