Re: -stack-list-locals and children

[Niko Sams <niko.sams@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 21:31, Vladimir Prus<vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Niko Sams wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> -stack-list-locals doesn't return an numchild element. How can the IDE
>> know if a local
>> is has children?
>>
>> If there are children, they are listed in value:
>> ^done,locals=[{name="list",value="QList = {[0] = \"hello\"}"}]
>>
>> Is it a good idea to parse the value with an regular expression to
>> find out if there are children?
>>
>> Or is there a better way to get numchild?
>
> I think the right approach is a command that creates and returns varobjs
> for locals.
I thought a large number of -var-create commands could be omitted when using
the value we already get.
Basic tests showed me that -var-create is relatively slow for large lists.

Niko