From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12481 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2007 10:39:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 12473 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2007 10:39:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:39:21 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IFp83-0004Q4-Lm for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:39:03 +0200 Received: from 241-246.umostel.ru ([77.246.241.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:39:03 +0200 Received: from ghost by 241-246.umostel.ru with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:39:03 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: Type information in -data-evaluate-expression Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <200707301540.59361.apoenitz@trolltech.com> <18095.3821.812493.749018@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00328.txt.bz2 Nick Roberts wrote: > > Ok, I get this now. > > > > But that's nice. I am running with "set unwindonsignal on" anyway as my > > "custom data dumpers" tend to produce (expectedly so...) segmentation > > faults when being thrown on uninitialized data structures. > > > > 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. - Volodya