Re: MI varobj properties

Jim Ingham
2006-11-15T17:48:08Z

I did -var-info-path-expression lazily, since these can be pretty long
strings, and most of the time they aren't used. So hanging one off
each varobj when it's not needed seems wasteful.

Jim

On Nov 15, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

>
> It looks like MI has grown way to many ways to report properties of
> a variable
> object:
>
> - When a variable object is created, the gdb response reports some
> properties (like expression and the number of children).
> - There's -var-info-expression that returns the expression
> (basically
> the same as above) and also language.
> - There's -var-show-attributes that returns "editable"
> attribute.
> - Apple branch has -var-info-path-expression that returns full
> expression
>
> This is somewhat complicated, and there are no clear rationale how
> do get any
> new bit of information.
>
> Except for getting the value of a variable objects, all those
> properties are
> computed by gdb, and there are no complex algorithms. How about the
> following
> change:
>
>
> - The commands that create new variable object always return
> full
> list of properties.
> - There's a new command that also returns the full list of
> properties
> - For backward compatibility, existing commands just forward
> to the new command.
>
> Comments?
>
> - Volodya