Re: -stack-list-locals and children

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>]

André Pönitz wrote:

> On Sunday 28 June 2009 21:03:01 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?
> 
> It would be really nice if 'type' and 'numchild' information was directly
> included in that "primary" output. The information is available on
> the gdb side, so parsing it from the 'value' field does not really look
> like a good solution in the long run.

As I mention in other email, getting the number of children is in general
impossible. Maybe, "has_children" flag would be more appropriate -- this
is somewhat more likely to be computable.

I am not sure it was you, but there was an IRC discussion about making
-stack-list-locals also print type of things -- can you describe exactly
how you gonna use that information, so that I have a chance to implement
that properly? 

One important question is whether knowing a type of expression, without
knowing its address, is gonna help you very much.

- Volodya