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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Type information in -data-evaluate-expression
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18095.6073.768333.101235@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8n3g0$7ks$1@sea.gmane.org>

 > >  > So this really does not hurt. I can even call 
 > >  > -data-evaluate-expression abort() directly and am still able to
 > >  > continue debugging.
 > > 
 > > I guess other unpleasant things could happen, like variables changing
 > > value.
 > 
 > So what are you proposing? Variable tooltips is something users like.

I don't think they like variables to change value when they move the
mouse around e.g.

  #define ADD4 addtox (4)

  int x = 1;

  void addtox (int i)
  {
    x = x + i;
  }  

adds 4 to x every time the mouse lingers over ADD4.  It's a contrived example
but there are probably more realistic scenarios.  In Emacs, I don't compute
the tooltip if the macro expands to a function.

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


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30 13:52 André Pönitz
2007-07-30 15:34 ` Vladimir Prus
2007-07-30 17:06   ` André Pönitz
2007-07-30 23:17     ` Nick Roberts
     [not found]       ` <200707310922.14919.apoenitz@trolltech.com>
2007-07-31  9:13         ` Nick Roberts
2007-07-31  9:40           ` André Pönitz
2007-07-31 10:39             ` Nick Roberts
2007-07-31 11:02               ` Vladimir Prus
2007-07-31 11:25                 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-07-31 11:06               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-07-31 13:35                 ` Nick Roberts
2007-07-31 10:14           ` Vladimir Prus
2007-07-31 10:29             ` Nick Roberts
2007-07-31  8:09     ` Vladimir Prus

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