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Marchesi" To: Andrew Burgess Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Integrate GNU poke in GDB References: <20210510151044.20829-1-jose.marchesi@oracle.com> <20210510151044.20829-2-jose.marchesi@oracle.com> <20210511073331.GU6612@embecosm.com> <875yzps9k1.fsf@oracle.com> <20210512085256.GV6612@embecosm.com> Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 12:14:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20210512085256.GV6612@embecosm.com> (Andrew Burgess's message of "Wed, 12 May 2021 09:52:56 +0100") Message-ID: <877dk4mf6t.fsf@oracle.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Content-Type: text/plain X-Originating-IP: [141.143.193.79] X-ClientProxiedBy: AM0PR03CA0044.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com (2603:10a6:208::21) To DM5PR10MB2041.namprd10.prod.outlook.com (2603:10b6:3:111::16) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MS-Exchange-MessageSentRepresentingType: 1 Received: from termi.oracle.com (141.143.193.79) by AM0PR03CA0044.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com (2603:10a6:208::21) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.20.4108.25 via Frontend Transport; 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GDB simply can't do the same thing based on >> the "equivalent" collection of decoupled C types, which are really not >> equivalent at all. > > Thanks for this explanation. For me, personally, I think the manual > entry would be much more powerful if something like the above was > included. I feel it really gives an idea for the sort of thing that > can be achieved with poke. Ok I am adding a section to poke.texi with an introduction. Thanks for the feedback!