From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion for gdb-ui.el Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:03:07 +1200 Message-ID: <17054.12443.347233.256554@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <1117534403.15206.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17052.55784.138439.629172@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <1117612957.16251.79.camel@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117664330 21089 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2005 22:18:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 00:18:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdbWf-000184-37 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:17:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ddbc2-00057r-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DdbZt-0004WS-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DdbZn-0004Pn-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdbZl-00045t-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:20:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DdbKI-0002B7-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:04:38 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p173-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.173]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492BA538D54; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:02:26 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id F0EE362A99; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 23:03:07 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Albert Veli In-Reply-To: <1117612957.16251.79.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.64 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38018 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38018 > > > It would also be nice if the changed registers would be highlighted > > > somehow (I noticed it's on the TODO list in gdb-ui.el). > > > > This shouldn't be too hard to do with the GDB/MI commands. I have other > > changes that also use GDB/MI but I am waiting till after the release before > > installing them in case such changes introduce bugs. How useful is this > > feature? ... > If you write hand-written inline assembly then it is very useful to see > the registers while debugging. While doing calculations in assembly you > often try to put as many variables as possible into registers and try > not to load/store more than necessary to memory (because memory is > slow). > > It can be helpful to see which registers have changed if you, for > instance, ... OK. You've convinced me. I'll try to make these changes. If not before the pretest, then after the release. Nick