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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, pmuldoon@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] Add an evaluation function hook to Python breakpoints.
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012141746.00610.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimS_32d+7phemj95qCSdJzgXXOxjMhbt_9+i8D6@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 13 December 2010 20:45:38, Doug Evans wrote:
> Collecting data in the "evaluate" function feels too hacky for
> something we explicitly tell users is the published way to do this
> kind of thing.

FWIW, I think that's a common idiom, and I'm cool with it.
I recently saw a presentation of a proprietary (quite featureful)
debugger where the equivalent callback was shown as a means of collecting
data as well ("it just always returns FALSE, thus never causes a stop",
or some such).

-- 
Pedro Alves

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-14 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-13 13:50 Phil Muldoon
2010-12-13 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-13 14:47   ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-13 15:07     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-13 17:21       ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-13 17:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-13 14:33 ` Pedro Alves
2010-12-13 14:56   ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-13 15:07     ` Pedro Alves
2010-12-13 20:45 ` Doug Evans
2010-12-13 21:02   ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-14  3:31     ` Doug Evans
2010-12-14 17:18       ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-14 17:28   ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-14 19:51     ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-14 20:00       ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-15 15:34     ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-15 20:51       ` Tom Tromey
2011-01-27 12:44         ` Phil Muldoon
     [not found]           ` <AANLkTimi6ugruNAqUGHni8Kvkz+B5-s2aAkEoTY2D_gT@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-27 21:40             ` Phil Muldoon
2011-01-28 10:42           ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-15 16:21     ` Doug Evans
2010-12-15 20:57       ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-21 17:33         ` Doug Evans
2010-12-21 20:02           ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-22 16:34             ` Doug Evans
2010-12-22 17:35               ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-28  5:53                 ` Doug Evans
2011-01-05 18:35                   ` Tom Tromey
2011-01-05 20:23                     ` Phil Muldoon
2011-01-09 20:32                       ` Doug Evans
2010-12-14 17:46   ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2010-12-14 16:35 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-14 17:02   ` Phil Muldoon
2010-12-14 17:48     ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-14 16:42 ` Tom Tromey

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