Re: -stack-list-locals and children

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>]

Niko Sams wrote:

> 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.

How slow and how did you measure this? I would not expect variable objects to
be considerably slower than printing the value in any other way.

- Volodya