From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29391 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2006 06:51:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 29382 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2006 06:51:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:51:06 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-120-122.snap.net.nz [202.124.120.122]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116A83D82B7; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:52:41 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 408E1BE457; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:46:30 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17803.32581.121106.753961@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:51:00 -0000 To: Vladimir Prus Cc: Jim Ingham , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: variable objects and registers In-Reply-To: <200612220923.22655.ghost@cs.msu.su> References: <17782.41205.881283.845357@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <1B6B17FA-65DE-4CE2-9BE0-20DA74780EEA@apple.com> <17803.25142.328258.338868@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200612220923.22655.ghost@cs.msu.su> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.92.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-12/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 > > Insight just prints the type as a tooltip for structures. You seem to be > > saying that in Xcode you can do this and choose to expand it. Using > > "print" in Emacs, everything is automatically expanded which I must admit > > is messy with a large array or structure. Perhaps > > -data-evaluate-expression could be modified to print "--simple-values" or > > "--all-values" as -stack-list-locals does. > > I think it's much better to use varobjs for tooltips. It's much better for > structures. You might well be right but could you say why and how they would work with tooltips? -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob