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Re: -stack-list-locals and children

From: nickrob at snap dot net dot nz (Nick Roberts)
To: Niko Sams <niko dot sams at gmail dot com>
Cc: gdb <gdb at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:49:21 +1200
Subject: Re: -stack-list-locals and children
References: <629542d40906281203o3601025at573704e36ee80565@mail.gmail.com> <h29j91$buu$1@ger.gmane.org> <629542d40906290012p33c5504pde20ddcd7da3474a@mail.gmail.com> <200906291217.58961.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <629542d40906290230n4da6f347s1566847defb9a1c0@mail.gmail.com>

 > > Also, is -stack-list-locals any better here? I'd expect it to either have
 > > exactly the same performance problems, or ignore pretty-printing. If it
 > > is considerably faster while still reporting 1000 children, it's performance
 > > bug somewhere.
 > It's much faster. I get about 100 children in the value followed by ....

I think the limit is 200 (show print elements) but if elements repeat themselves
(generally 0) an ellipsis is used.

Presumably it's much faster because -stack-list-locals just prints/dumps out the
values while variable objects allow you to edit, change format, expand, list
changed values etc...

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

References:
- -stack-list-locals and children
  - From: Niko Sams
- Re: -stack-list-locals and children
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: -stack-list-locals and children
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: -stack-list-locals and children
  - From: Niko Sams

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