From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Change how value is shown for varobjs of type vector.
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121014172527.GC3050@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50631DE7.7050702@broadcom.com>
> I have a patch (below) that changes the value field from the current
> "[8]" to "{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }". The varobj still has 8
> children, and the top level varobj is still not editable, you have to
> edit through the children.
I personally do not have a strong objection to this change, but I have
to admit that I am not particularly fond of the idea. I think that
this issue should be handled at the front-end level (Eg. Eclipse),
and in a manor that is general to all arrays. One possible suggestion
would be to have the IDE detect small arrays of integrals, and in
that case display them in a more convenient way right away. But
perhaps it isn't easy, in which case maybe a change in GDB would make
better sense. I just don't like it because it breaks a little bit
the consistency of the value field.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-14 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-26 15:23 Andrew Burgess
2012-10-04 10:57 ` Andrew Burgess
2012-10-14 17:25 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-10-15 11:12 ` Marc Khouzam
2012-10-17 17:04 ` Tom Tromey
2012-10-18 9:23 ` Andrew Burgess
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