From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gdba probs Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:13:55 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021212141355.GA19641@gnu.org> References: <15855.47556.171128.631234@nick.uklinux.net> <200212052149.gB5LnZ504967@rum.cs.yale.edu> <15857.24365.637778.876009@nick.uklinux.net> <200212101419.gBAEJnf31571@rum.cs.yale.edu> <15862.30022.647969.267154@nick.uklinux.net> <200212111411.gBBEBUn03805@rum.cs.yale.edu> <15863.48069.658013.465668@nick.uklinux.net> <200212112248.gBBMmR406249@rum.cs.yale.edu> <15863.53945.373935.975803@nick.uklinux.net> <200212121349.gBCDnss08775@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039702496 16901 80.91.224.249 (12 Dec 2002 14:14:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:14:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MU74-0004OD-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:14:54 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18MUId-00013u-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:26:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MU6S-0001m8-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:14:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MU69-0001ji-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:13:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MU67-0001eX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:13:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MU67-0001dv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:13:55 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18MU67-0005DL-00; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:13:55 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212121349.gBCDnss08775@rum.cs.yale.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop Original-cc: Nick Roberts X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10088 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10088 On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:49:54AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > [Yeah I know gud.el is a big ball of hair already, but there's no sense > > in making it worse] > > Which part are you thinking of ? It's really not that bad. It has > annoying limitations due to excessive use of global state (you can't have > both a GDB and a PerlDB running at the same time), but the code itself is > pretty clean and simple if you ask me (at least the generic part of the > code is very slim AFAIK). Well, OK, I haven't really looked at the whole thing very closely, so perhaps what I said above is unjustified. However, when I've had to fix a bug or something in that code, I always come away feeling a bit dirty, and thinking `boy somebody needs to clean this up.' -Miles -- We live, as we dream -- alone....