Re: [PATCH] varobj.c: Report changed values that use a pretty-printer

[nickrob at snap dot net dot nz (Nick Roberts)]

 > Nick> There have been a few problems, notably changed values don't seem
 > Nick> to get reported by -var-update.  The patch below seems to fix
 > Nick> this.
 > 
 > Oops, bad timing ... I have a big patch to redo all this code, as
 > discussed on the gdb list and the archer list.  It is on the
 > archer-tromey-python branch, but I plan to push it to CVS as soon as
 > Volodya declares it ready (and as soon as I tidy up the documentation,
 > my task for tomorrow).

No problem, it was only a small patch.  Were you aware that changed values
aren't reported?  Does your patch fix the problems that I mentioned?

 > Nick> The scope of this work seems enormous as it opens the possiblity
 > Nick> of formatting the watch expressions of all STL containers (as,
 > Nick> ISTR, is already done in Totalview).  Of course the amount of work
 > Nick> it entails is probably enormous too and the problem, as always, is
 > Nick> finding someone to do it.
 > 
 > GCC svn trunk has pretty-printers for basically everything in libstdc++ :-)

Cool!  Will they be distributed as part of the libstdc++ package files?
i.e. with future GNU/Linux distributions

 > I'd like to write printers for some other programs (gdb, or gcc, or
 > python, or emacs) but haven't found the time ...

I'm not sure what you mean.  I was thinking of writing lisp code so that
Emacs can parse the output of the pretty printers like the ones you describe
above. 

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob