Re: [PATCH] Make StdVectorPrinter in printers.py compatible with ddd

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>]

On 24 March 2011 23:16, Hans Erickson <hans.p.erickson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2) Is it reasonable for a gdb front-end to expect a comma to be used
>>> ? in the way that it is used in the pre-patched code?
>>
>> Mu.
>>
>> A GDB front end should use one of the programmatic interfaces to get
>> output from GDB, writing a GUI by parsing text meant for display in a
>> terminal is doomed to fail in the long run.
>>
>
> Interesting. ?I was under the impression from looking at the GDB
> Machine Interface documentation
> (http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI-Variable-Objects.html#GDB_002fMI-Variable-Objects)
> that the same python pretty-printing code could be used for formatting
> variables through the programmatic interface, but I may be misreading
> the documentation. ?It does say that there's no way to implement it in
> a fully backward-compatible way, so I suppose existing GUIs shouldn't
> be expected to automatically work.

You may well be right, I haven't looked into it properly.