From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19755 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2009 20:03:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 19726 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Sep 2009 20:03:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:03:10 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8EK37eg031301; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:03:07 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8EK36bh016395; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:03:07 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8EK35rJ004844; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:03:06 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 44E87378175; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:03:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Patch: implement new dynamic varobj spec References: <83y6okzfl6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:03:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83y6okzfl6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:18:13 +0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2009-09/txt/msg00447.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: Tom> +Note that if Python support has not been compiled into @value{GDBN}, Tom> +this command will still succeed. Eli> Suggest to add "(and do nothing)" to the end of the sentence Eli> Btw, does this silent failure have good reasons? There just didn't seem to be much value in issuing an error. Tom> +This operation returns attributes of the newly-created varobj. These Tom> +include, but are not limited to: Eli> Why don't we have an exhaustive list here? We may add attributes later. Tom> +@item thread-id Tom> +If a fixed variable object is bound to a specific thread, then this is Tom> +the thread's identifier. Eli> Is "fixed" used here as opposed to "dynamic"? I don't know where that came from, I removed the "fixed". Tom> +For a dynamic varobj, this value cannot reliably be used to form an Tom> +expression. Also, a dynamic varobj will not report the access Tom> +qualifying pseudo-children, regardless of the language. Eli> Do we want to give the reader some hints as to how to achieve these Eli> with dynamic varobjs? There is no way to do these. Tom