From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12096 invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2009 19:56:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 12087 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Sep 2009 19:56:55 -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 19:56:50 +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 n8EJua2x008147; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:56:37 -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 n8EJuZbP014957; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:56:36 -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 n8EJuYgE004228; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:56:34 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id D93A8378175; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:56:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Patch: implement new dynamic varobj spec References: <19113.58116.381538.294631@totara.tehura.co.nz> Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:56:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <19113.58116.381538.294631@totara.tehura.co.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:41:24 +1200") 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/msg00445.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Roberts writes: Nick> Would it not be better to create children in the range specified Nick> since the array might be large and the front end only needs the Nick> values it displays. I think I glossed over this in my earlier reply. Yeah, I think this would be a good improvement for ordinary (non-pretty-printed) arrays. I have not looked into the problem, though -- I've really just focused on the dynamic / pretty-printing bits. Tom