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From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: MI varobj artificial fields
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804161920.02035.ghost@cs.msu.su> (raw)


Right now, when you're in C++ program and ask for children of a varobj
that has structure type, you don't the the fields. Instead, you get
"public", "private" and "protected" as children.

I don't think this makes very much sense. Presenting access specifies in UI
as items in the tree seems to just clutter things. Especially as in C++, 
classes are either POD, with everything public, or real classes, with everything
private. Protected data is generally frowned upon. So, most often we'll have
a lonely "public" or "private" item having all the real item.

Furthermore, even if class has a mixture of public, protected and private data,
do we expect the user to remember the visibility of the field he's after?

So, I suggest to allow MI to optionally suppress those artificial fields.
Comments?

- Volodya


             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-16 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-16 16:27 Vladimir Prus [this message]
2008-04-16 18:06 ` Pedro Alves
2008-04-16 18:18 ` André Pönitz
2008-04-16 18:22   ` Marc Khouzam
2008-04-16 18:51     ` Jim Ingham
     [not found] <4806400B.7050905@qnx.com>
2008-04-16 19:16 ` Jim Ingham
2008-04-16 19:22   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-04-16 19:34     ` Jim Ingham
2008-04-16 22:05       ` Pedro Alves
2008-04-18 10:22         ` André Pönitz

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