Re: MI: variable objects: children naming

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:20:07PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>     (gdb)
>     -var-create TMP * m
>     ^done,name="TMP",numchild="3",type="int [3]"
>     (gdb)
>     -var-list-children TMP
>     ^done,numchild="3",children=[
>         child={name="TMP.0",exp="0",numchild="0",type="int"},
>         child={name="TMP.1",exp="1",numchild="0",type="int"},
>         child={name="TMP.2",exp="2",numchild="0",type="int"}]
> 
> 
> Suppose I display this to the user as a tree. If user selects first child of
> "m" and wants to set watchpoint on it,  I need to know the full name of
> first child of "m". In C++, that would be m[0]. 
> 
> However, the information gdb prints does not allow me to compute m[0]:

Is this the only thing you need the name for, or is it useful for other
purposes in the user interface too?  (Honest question - I have no
idea.)

If watchpoints are the only reason, then you could have a variant of a
watchpoint command which took a varobj.

>   - Calling '-var-info-expression TMP.0' returns:
>         ^done,lang="C++",exp="0"
> 
> It seems like Apple version has new command -var-info-path-expression, which
> is not present in FSF version, and which supposedly will produce "m[0]".

We'd have to ask Jim for the history, but why should we do this instead
of fixing -var-info-expression?  That behavior looks pretty wrong!

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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