From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minor gdb-ui patches to make it a bit more robust
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:57:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3arpnduo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18362.43848.977271.737049@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:11:20 +1300")
> The flexibility of the command line means that there are always ways round
> these types of checks. For example, the prompt can be changed, e.g when
Of course, I'm not deluding myself: these are nothing more than sanity
checks, but they can come *real* handy to the user. I wasted a good 10
minutes trying to understand why my GDB was not responsive.
>> Also I think a good way to make it more reliable would be to make
>> it work with several gud buffers by moving most global vars to
>> process properties, so they're necessarily correctly initialized, and
>> we'd be forced to think a bit harder about what's going on where.
> I'm not familar with process properties but I trust your judgement to
> make these changes.
Process properties are nothing magical: they're just a property-list
attached to processes, that you can set and read via process-put and
process-get. Handy for variables which are really per-process
(e.g. the yet-to-be-processed process output that needs to be passed
from one invocation of the process filter to the next).
> Bear in mind, though, that the (long term) plan is to move away from
> annotations and fully use GDB/MI.
I don't see in what way that would make any difference: global variables
will still be a source of bugs (and will still prevent the co-existence
of multiple gdb-ui processes in the same Emacs instance).
>> PS: Is there any hope for GDB to accept a command that puts it in
>> annotate=3 mode, rather than having to tweak the command line for it?
>> That would solve a lot of those problems.
> Yes, if you mean "set annotate 3".
So is there any hope to make gdb-ui rely on that rather than
on --annotate=3?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-19 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 21:08 Minor gdb-ui patches to make it a bit more robust Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 22:12 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-19 2:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-19 9:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-02-19 10:11 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-19 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-19 23:48 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-20 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
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