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Re: Type information in -data-evaluate-expression
Nick Roberts wrote:
> > Ok, I get this now.
> >
> > But that's nice. I am running with "set unwindonsignal on" anyway as my
> > "custom data dumpers" tend to produce (expectedly so...) segmentation
> > faults when being thrown on uninitialized data structures.
> >
> > So this really does not hurt. I can even call
> > -data-evaluate-expression abort() directly and am still able to
> > continue debugging.
>
> I guess other unpleasant things could happen, like variables changing
> value.
So what are you proposing? Variable tooltips is something users like.
- Volodya