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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gdba locals buffer does not show function arguments
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:38:23 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18163.29935.95874.646659@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33ax98gxa.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

 > Yeah, I did notice the info in the stack window.  I found that harder
 > to read, though.  The locals window is more nicely formatted.  Also,
 > lines in the stack window are truncated; so if you have a long
 > function name, some values may be hidden.
 > 
 > I don't understand why gdb differentiates between locals and
 > arguments.  And I don't think that Emacs necessarily has to follow
 > this distinction.

I _could_ parse the arguments out of the stack buffer so that they're not
duplicated, but since the plan is to migrate to GDB/MI I don't think it's worth
the effort.  I hear what you say though and I'll try to implement this design
in the future with MI commands.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-21  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19 16:17 gdba locals buffer does not show function arguments Tom Tromey
2007-09-20 11:16 ` Nick Roberts
2007-09-20 16:01   ` Tom Tromey
2007-09-21  7:38     ` Nick Roberts [this message]

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