From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/8] Add output styles to gdb
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnwlcmmj.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8552262-1807-78f3-4d42-0356e0b964d0@simark.ca> (Simon Marchi's message of "Sun, 7 Oct 2018 17:58:24 -0400")
>> These questions about the overall approach and the API are the main
>> things to resolve up front, since they have the highest cost to change.
Simon> Indeed, but at least it's not external API, so we have the option to change.
The main thing I am concerned about is that if we pick the approach I've
implemented, then changing our minds to a format-based approach will be
harder. I think that's the case because the user-facing "set"s would be
hard to migrate to a format-based approach.
And, FWIW, I think the format-based approach isn't super hard to
implement. The main problems there are design problems: whether to
remap the names of tables and fields; how to handle the trouble cases I
found in my initial investigation; and of course whether there are more
difficult cases lurking.
Overall I think I'm in favor of the approach I've posted, but I think
it's a good to examine this idea critically.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-08 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-06 21:13 [RFC 0/8] add terminal styling " Tom Tromey
2018-09-06 21:13 ` [RFC 7/8] Style the gdb welcome message Tom Tromey
2018-09-06 21:13 ` [RFC 1/8] Change wrap buffering to use a std::string Tom Tromey
2018-10-06 15:19 ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-08 22:04 ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-18 22:16 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-06 21:13 ` [RFC 2/8] Add a "context" argument to add_setshow_enum_cmd Tom Tromey
2018-09-06 21:13 ` [RFC 4/8] Add variable name styling Tom Tromey
2018-10-06 16:34 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-06 21:13 ` [RFC 6/8] Style print_address_symbolic Tom Tromey
2018-09-06 21:13 ` [RFC 3/8] Add output styles to gdb Tom Tromey
2018-10-06 15:53 ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-06 19:06 ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-07 21:58 ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-08 0:23 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-10-08 2:02 ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-08 2:49 ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-08 11:10 ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-08 22:17 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-06 21:14 ` [RFC 5/8] Style locations when setting a breakpoint Tom Tromey
2018-10-06 16:36 ` Simon Marchi
2018-09-06 21:14 ` [RFC 8/8] Style the "Reading symbols" message Tom Tromey
2018-09-07 6:23 ` [RFC 0/8] add terminal styling to gdb Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 14:36 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-07 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 7:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-10-04 13:11 ` Tom Tromey
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