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Re: Understanding GDB frames
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Marc Gauthier <marc at tensilica dot com>
- Cc: Ross Morley <ross at tensilica dot com>, Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>, Maxim Grigoriev <maxim at tensilica dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org, Pete MacLiesh <pmac at tensilica dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:36:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: Understanding GDB frames
- References: <4652AC74.9050100@tensilica.com> <KAEOLFIOAJBBAFKHIDEAMENFEEAA.marc@tensilica.com>
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:10:29AM -0700, Marc Gauthier wrote:
> As we discussed offline yesterday, this has performance implications
> on the GUI, which would have to recreate the varobjs every time which
> is time consuming.
Is the performance implication the main reason? If so, I'd rather we
fix that instead. I know Nick and/or Vladimir suggested "-var-list
--locals" at one point in an earlier discussion of a related problem.
That's probably quite a lot faster, especially if we can notify the
front end when it enters a new frame.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery