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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: MI floating varobj of invalid value
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uiqy4yp1m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20080427153800.jdVQpgjixayTBhD9usFAd_AfqiRdld1XB5gMP8CLfqo@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804270127.48885.vladimir@codesourcery.com>

> From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:27:48 +0400
> 
> However, if frontend tries to create varobj for foo
> at the first stop, and 'foo' is not in scope, then varobj will not be created.

Why is that?  Since a floating varobj's expression is re-parsed every
time, you should be able to delay parsing and not fail creation
because some of its terms are not in scope, right?

> Does making creation of floating varobj always succeed seem a good idea?

Yes, I think so.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-27  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-26 22:27 Vladimir Prus
2008-04-27  7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-04-27 15:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-27 21:46   ` Vladimir Prus
2008-04-28 18:02 ` Marc Khouzam

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