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From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
To: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: semantics of dynamic varobj
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528F5839.4050100@codesourcery.com> (raw)

Nowadays, if a varobj's contents are provided by pretty-printer, it is 
called dynamic varobj.  However, it is unclear to me what is a dynamic 
varobj?  What is the "dynamic" part of dynamic varobj? the children?

IIUC, the children of dynamic varobj vary.  That is why returned 
attributed 'numchild' of -var-create is "not necessarily reliable", right?

I ask these questions because I am adding a new kind of dynamic varobj, 
whose contents are provided by only available data.  For example,

struct foo
{
   int a, b, c;
};
struct foo foo;

foo.a and foo.c is collected in traceframe #1, while foo.b is collected 
in traceframe #2.  We create a varobj foo for variable foo, if 
traceframe is #1, foo has two children (foo.a and foo.c), if traceframe 
is #2, foo has one child (foo.b).  IMO, varobj foo behaves like a 
dynamic varobj.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-22 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-22 13:14 Yao Qi [this message]
2013-11-22 13:28 ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-22 16:12 ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-22 16:37   ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-22 17:01     ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-23 13:34     ` Yao Qi

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