[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>] Re: Patch: make `inferior_args' visible to gdbtk

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

Here's Andrew's response to my minor infcmd.c patch.

I can't do this work.  I guess this means that parts of session saving
will simply be useless for now.

Tom
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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
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Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> I recently wrote a patch for Insight (aka gdbtk) to make it possible
> to save parts of the current session.  One thing that is saved is the
> inferior's arguments.  However, currently there is no good way for
> Insight to get this information from gdb.
> 
> Making the variable `inferior_args' non-static was the simplest way to
> accomplish this.
> 
> Ok?

No.  Insight needs to start using a formal interface into GDB.

	enjoy,
		Andrew



> 2000-11-28  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
> 
>         * infcmd.c (inferior_args): No longer static.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Index: infcmd.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/infcmd.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.13
> diff -u -r1.13 infcmd.c
> --- infcmd.c    2000/11/10 19:27:45     1.13
> +++ infcmd.c    2000/12/07 22:30:13
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
>  /* String containing arguments to give to the program, separated by spaces.
>     Empty string (pointer to '\0') means no args.  */
> 
> -static char *inferior_args;
> +char *inferior_args;
> 
>  /* File name for default use for standard in/out in the inferior.  */
>

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