From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Simon Marchi via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: MI to access value of $ prefixed variable name
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:57:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v96xqupr.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df1ca9fd-5824-fc9b-d926-37a368df3d38@polymtl.ca> (Simon Marchi via Gdb's message of "Tue, 25 May 2021 10:03:56 -0400")
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:
Simon> I'd say that the simplest solution would be: don't use dollar sign in
Simon> identifiers. But if somebody really wants GDB to support it, then they
Simon> can always send a patch for it (I don't think this is a priority for
Simon> anyone).
I think it would be fine if someone wanted to solve this.
Maybe one idea would be to defer to variables from the inferior, but
provide some additional way to refer to convenience variables. Or maybe
vice versa.
Tom
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-01 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-25 4:35 Jonah Graham
2021-05-25 14:03 ` Simon Marchi
2021-05-25 17:11 ` Jonah Graham
2021-06-01 18:57 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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