Re: pretty-printing update

>>>>> "André" == André Pönitz <apoenitz@...> writes:

André> But from a GUI point of view there is not really much
André> difference whether gdb automatically looks in certain places
André> for custom formatters or whether it has to pump a few hundred
André> lines of "-var-set-format" into gdb "manually".

I think the problem here is naming of the formatters.  Suppose we have
a custom formatters for a large number of libraries -- say one for
every C++ library in the OS.  How would a front end know the names of
the various formatters to supply?

The nice thing about the auto-loading plan is that it means that
library authors can maintain formatting bits independently.

André> Actually I would argue that the formatter code is pretty likely
André> to depend more on the actual GUI than on the type (even with
André> changing libstdc++ in mind). In the example I gave there are
André> fields like "name" and "valueencoded" that will probably only
André> make sense to a very specific GUI.

I see what you mean.  I think the current MI code on this branch just
emits a couple of known fields.  Maybe that is insufficient -- I don't
know yet.

Tom