From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Update doc on displayhint in command -var-list-children
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 02:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528C0465.8080902@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iovomjwn.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On 11/20/2013 12:32 AM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> If a varobj has a pretty-printer, then the display hint is an attribute
> of that printer. It ought to be printed as an attribute of the result.
>
> Of course, child objects can have their own pretty-printers, and thus
> their own display hints.
How about adding the description of "displayhint" in child result?
--
Yao (é½å°§)
gdb/doc:
2013-11-20 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* gdb.texinfo (GDB/MI Variable Objects): Add the description
of "displayhint" to the table about child results.
---
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 19e9aa5..d26cd0e 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -32516,6 +32516,12 @@ Otherwise this result is not present.
@item frozen
If the variable object is frozen, this variable will be present with a value of 1.
+
+@item displayhint
+A dynamic varobj can supply a display hint to the front end. The
+value comes directly from the Python pretty-printer object's
+@code{display_hint} method. @xref{Pretty Printing API}.
+
@end table
The result may have its own attributes:
--
1.7.7.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-20 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-19 11:39 Yao Qi
2013-11-19 11:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] Doc 'dynamic' for " Yao Qi
2013-11-19 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-21 3:52 ` Yao Qi
2013-11-19 16:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] Update doc on displayhint in " Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-19 17:05 ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-20 2:16 ` Yao Qi [this message]
2013-11-22 20:02 ` Tom Tromey
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