Re: Variable objects: references formatting

Jim Blandy
2006-05-04T17:32:22Z

On 5/3/06, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
> > The patch is against an older version of varobj.c, and does seem to be
> > cut from a larger patch, but it applies, and given the surrounding
> > code in c_value_of_variable, and the behavior of c_val_print, the
> > general sense of the change seems correct. Have you tried creating
> > varobjs for values that are references to structs and displaying them,
> > which I think is the case actually being addressed?
>
> OK, if its a patch for -var-valuate-expression then perhaps the BOGUS
> comment could be removed as it seems to address this issue.

I read the "BOGUS" comment as referring to the fact that we have to
specially trap structs and unions, instead of simply passing
everything through common_val_print. I don't think this patch affects
that "bogusness"; it just makes the workaround work better.

(Are there any cases where common_val_print (and thus c_val_print)
prints the "{...}" we need automatically for us? Or is this code the
sole source of that behavior?)