Re: [RFC 3/8] Add output styles to gdb

[Simon Marchi <simark at simark dot ca>]

On 2018-10-07 20:23, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Simon> Indeed, but at least it's not external API, so we have the
> option to change.
>
> The main thing I am concerned about is that if we pick the approach 
> I've
> implemented, then changing our minds to a format-based approach will be
> harder.  I think that's the case because the user-facing "set"s would 
> be
> hard to migrate to a format-based approach.
>
> And, FWIW, I think the format-based approach isn't super hard to
> implement.  The main problems there are design problems: whether to
> remap the names of tables and fields; how to handle the trouble cases I
> found in my initial investigation; and of course whether there are more
> difficult cases lurking.

Ok, so I'd like to understand better the idea of the format-based 
approach, maybe I don't quite get what you mean.  It would be easier to 
comment on something concrete (even without code, just a relatively 
well-defined description of the format).

Simon