Re: other weird gdb-mi problems

[Nick Roberts]

 > > ... wait a minute... why am I still at frame 1?!
 > > "down" is similarly weird:
 > > 
 > >    (gdb) down
 > >    Bottom (innermost) frame selected; you cannot go down.
 > 
 > Does this work correctly outside Emacs?  (Sorry for asking such
 > obvious questions, but I thought it could be some genuine GDB problem
 > with inlined functions.)

It's an Emacs problem.  The CLI commands "up" and "down", don't emit any
GDB/MI notifications so Emacs doen't know that the display needs updating.  It
could check the selected frame after every command but that seems inefficient.
I have proposed using notifications for changes in state in the past on the
GDB mailing list, e.g.,
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-04/msg00377.html but there hasn't
been much interest.  I think this is because many frontends don't use a
console like the GUD buffer.

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