From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Robustifying pretty-printers
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907101012.32112.vladimir@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tz1llled.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Thursday 09 July 2009 Tom Tromey wrote:
> Vladimir> We probably need a way to explicitly reset the
> Vladimir> 'remembemered' limit on elements, so that frontend is not
> Vladimir> forced to display 20 elements forever.
>
> I couldn't find a reason why you wanted the range on
> -var-list-children and not as a separate command. Could you explain
> why? The reason I ask is that this issue was already solved in the
> old patch: you could use -var-set-child-range to set and also unset
> the range.
The primary reason is that if frontend wants to fetch more data, it's
natural to issue:
-var-list-children 10 20
than
-var-set-child-range 0 20
-var-list-children
and then filter out the first 10 elements FE already has.
- Volodya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-10 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-13 10:11 Vladimir Prus
2009-06-13 10:21 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-06-15 12:28 ` Phil Muldoon
2009-06-15 12:39 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-06-15 12:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-15 13:25 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-06-16 7:22 ` André Pönitz
2009-06-15 20:01 ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-16 8:22 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-07-07 21:48 ` Tom Tromey
2009-07-09 17:20 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-07-09 19:14 ` Tom Tromey
2009-07-10 6:13 ` Vladimir Prus [this message]
2009-07-10 16:25 ` Tom Tromey
2009-07-10 16:40 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-07-10 16:48 ` Tom Tromey
2009-07-10 18:46 ` Vladimir Prus
2009-07-10 18:52 ` Tom Tromey
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