From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18579 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2013 00:39:53 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 18562 invoked by uid 89); 20 Nov 2013 00:39:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,GARBLED_BODY,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from Unknown (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:39:51 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1VivpP-0007B6-E8 from Yao_Qi@mentor.com ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:39:35 -0800 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-02.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.96.206]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:39:35 -0800 Received: from qiyao.dyndns.org (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-02.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.96.168) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.247.3; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:39:34 -0800 Message-ID: <528C0465.8080902@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 02:16:00 -0000 From: Yao Qi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tromey CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Update doc on displayhint in command -var-list-children References: <1384860516-6949-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <87iovomjwn.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <87iovomjwn.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00570.txt.bz2 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 (齐尧) gdb/doc: 2013-11-20 Yao Qi * 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