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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>,
		Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>,
		gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH:MI] Return a subset of a variable object's children
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 23:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18458.21568.657943.485907@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501204856.GW22218@caradoc.them.org>

 > > I don't know :-) I think that myArray@10 is gdb CLI trick; I never though
 > > it could be used in MI, but thinking of it, I cannot see a reason why not.
 > 
 > Yes, it can, and it's documented - just not in the MI chapter.  The
 > bit on the end of -var-create is just a GDB source language
 > expression, so refer to Artificial Arrays in the manual.
 > 
 > If this is the same as slicing, then it'd be nice to mention the
 > word "slice" in that chapter somewhere :-)

This is not the same as what I am proposing though.  Doing

-var-create - * myArray@10

and

-var-create - * (myArray + 100)@20

say would create two separate varobjs which the frontend would have to
juggle.  I am proposing one varobj to be a parent of all the children.

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


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-01 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-27 15:34 Nick Roberts
2008-04-29 15:58 ` Marc Khouzam
2008-04-30  7:02   ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-30  9:20     ` Vladimir Prus
2008-04-30  9:25       ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-30  9:39         ` Vladimir Prus
2008-04-30 16:29           ` Marc Khouzam
2008-05-01 15:56             ` Vladimir Prus
2008-05-01 17:29               ` Marc Khouzam
2008-05-01 12:15           ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-10 14:45             ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-28 19:15               ` Vladimir Prus
2008-05-29 12:01                 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-30 16:22         ` Marc Khouzam
2008-05-01 15:54           ` Vladimir Prus
2008-05-01 18:14             ` Marc Khouzam
2008-05-01 18:40               ` Vladimir Prus
2008-05-01 20:49                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-05-01 23:38                   ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-05-02  0:58                 ` Marc Khouzam
2008-05-11 17:45                   ` Vladimir Prus
2008-04-30 10:47       ` André Pönitz
2008-04-30 12:20         ` Vladimir Prus
2008-04-30 12:53           ` André Pönitz
2008-04-30 13:11             ` Vladimir Prus
2008-04-30 12:44         ` Nick Roberts
     [not found]           ` <200804301244.55116.apoenitz@trolltech.com>
2008-04-30 13:16             ` André Pönitz
2008-05-01  6:27               ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-05 11:46                 ` André Pönitz
2008-04-30 14:59     ` Marc Khouzam
2008-05-01 12:06       ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-01 14:22         ` Marc Khouzam
2008-05-01 20:41     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-04-30  8:59 ` Vladimir Prus

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