From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3993 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2010 17:15:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 3978 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Aug 2010 17:15:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:15:23 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o76HFI7E002766 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:15:19 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o76HFIAC025072; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:15:18 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o76HFHco012152; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:15:17 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 385703782ED; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:15:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Doug Evans Cc: Jan Kratochvil , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, David Malcolm Subject: Re: [patch] Fix python gdb.execute to not paginate References: <20100805212008.GA12652@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:15:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Doug Evans's message of "Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:22:41 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans writes: Doug> Actually, I wonder if it makes sense to bury more implementation Doug> details. Make an API of it, running a gdb command and collecting the Doug> result as a string. If we're talking about the long term, really the whole pagination interface is broken. Pagination should be a per-stream thing, and functions like wrap_here should have a stream parameter. Having to manipulate globals to get the right result here is clearly bogus. I don't think fixing this should be a requirement for a patch, though. Tom