Re: gdba locals buffer does not show function arguments

[Nick Roberts]

 > Yeah, I did notice the info in the stack window.  I found that harder
 > to read, though.  The locals window is more nicely formatted.  Also,
 > lines in the stack window are truncated; so if you have a long
 > function name, some values may be hidden.
 > 
 > I don't understand why gdb differentiates between locals and
 > arguments.  And I don't think that Emacs necessarily has to follow
 > this distinction.

I _could_ parse the arguments out of the stack buffer so that they're not
duplicated, but since the plan is to migrate to GDB/MI I don't think it's worth
the effort.  I hear what you say though and I'll try to implement this design
in the future with MI commands.

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