Re: [Cgdb-devel] cgdb and assembly

[Peter K. <pe...@ko...>]

I'm not sure that its all entirely necessary, although I definitely like
the idea of the multiple source view windows.

So, first of all, I think that we should have Source and Mixed Assembly.
I personally think that's the most useful view.  When you're in Mixed,
next implicitly means 'nexti' (next instruction).

I'll have to think about the multiple source views problem.  I'm
thinking some sort of event system, however I'm not sure that would be
the best thing to bundle into libtgdb which we eventually hope to be
used by other parties.  The idea would be that tgdb would output
different types of events like 'view source' events or 'terminal
output'.  cgdb would be responsible for catching these events, and
distributing them to the right places.  Seems a tad overly complicated,
but it might be a step in the right direction.

Another idea would be to register a series of callback functions.  So
when you create a source view, you register with tgdb and get called
whenever there is a source view update.  The problem with this, (and
with the event based approach) is how do you handle source file changes.
Do you wipe out all the windows?  Do you refresh all the windows with
the new source file?

- Peter

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:55:42PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have been thinking about the best way to add assembly to cgdb.
> As of now, cgdb  uses the line and file as the unique mapping to what
> should be display to the user. This will probably change. I am not sure
> how it should be implemented, but I think I have a clear idea of what it
> should do.
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> IMO, there should be a colon command, that lets the user change the way
> the current window displays to the user their program. Here are some:
> 1. Allow the window to show only the source code ( the default )=20
> 2. Allow the window to show only assembly
> 3. Allow the window to show mixed.
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> This should be modular so that the user can open a window, make it follow
> the source, open another window, make it follow assembly, and open
> another window and  make it be mixed. All of these things should work at
> the same time.
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> What does everyone think? It seems like it will be a pretty hard task.
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> Bob Rossi



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Peter D. Kovacs <pe...@ko...>