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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Use of create_new_frame from 'frame'.
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83io9uv3lb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150708170944.GA17985@embecosm.com>

> 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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-08 17:09 Andrew Burgess
2015-07-08 18:02 ` Pedro Alves
2015-07-08 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-07-08 19:46   ` Pedro Alves
2015-07-08 20:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-08 20:16   ` Andrew Burgess

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