From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2501 invoked by alias); 18 May 2009 23:34:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 2488 invoked by uid 22791); 18 May 2009 23:34:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 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) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 May 2009 23:34:16 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4INYDOZ006231 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 19:34:13 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n4INYDJk025037 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 19:34:13 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-12-127.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.12.127]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4INYCdE019645; Mon, 18 May 2009 19:34:13 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 564113784BC; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:34:12 -0600 (MDT) To: Vladimir Prus Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Python pretty-printing [6/6] References: From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 23:34:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Vladimir Prus's message of "Mon\, 18 May 2009 05\:25\:00 +0000 \(UTC\)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (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: 2009-05/txt/msg00384.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Vladimir" == Vladimir Prus writes: Vladimir> 1. From the *MI* docs it is not apparent why the Vladimir> 'visualizer' passed is called with varobj to get the real Vladimir> visualizer. Docs probably should be more explicit. I will update the docs. Vladimir> 2. I am unsure about the -var-set-child-range function -- Vladimir> why is this an integral part of this patch? Was this tried Vladimir> with any frontend, and found sufficient/good? I don't think Vladimir> we ever reached a conclusion as to how to deal with big Vladimir> number of children. Yes, it is not intrinsically related. However, it is very easy for users to end up with huge objects when a pretty-printer is installed. That is, I think pretty-printing makes an existing problem more noticeable. AFAIK, no front end is currently using this function. So, I can remove it if you would prefer that. Tom