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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] PR python/11407
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y6e33r7d.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C23D5CB.5040702@redhat.com> (Phil Muldoon's message of "Thu, 24	Jun 2010 23:01:47 +0100")

>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> writes:

Phil> I'm not sure what to do in this case.  There seems to be no direct
Phil> equivalent of converting an exception to error output on a stream in MI
Phil> (or any cases of TRY ... exception handlers).  There are many cases of
Phil> MI raising an error() though, so I thought it appropriate in our case
Phil> to raise a warning() instead.  Because of the peculiarities of the MI
Phil> cases I just report a warning generically and move on.  This is not
Phil> totally ideal, but it does allow the error/warning preamble followed
Phil> by the actual locals information.

I'm not convinced a warning is the best thing.

Why not catch the exception and print the text of it as the variable's
value?  Something like  <error reading variable: %s>
I think this will work ok with existing front ends.

Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-25 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-24 11:33 Phil Muldoon
2010-06-24 15:10 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-06-24 18:10 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-24 22:01   ` Phil Muldoon
2010-06-25  6:56     ` Phil Muldoon
2010-06-25 14:27       ` Phil Muldoon
2010-06-25 18:25     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-06-25 21:20       ` Phil Muldoon
2010-07-07 17:02         ` Phil Muldoon
2010-08-09 19:41           ` Phil Muldoon
2010-08-31 18:42             ` Phil Muldoon
2010-09-08 19:25         ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-26 17:10       ` Doug Evans
2010-06-28  6:26       ` André Pönitz
2010-06-28 16:52         ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-29  7:43           ` André Pönitz

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