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Re: MI & pretty-printing
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:34:23 -0600
- Subject: Re: MI & pretty-printing
- References: <200907132142.18043.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <m3iqh0fyg0.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <h7tasq$j74$1@ger.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:
Volodya> 1. Do you think it would be OK to make the has_more field
Volodya> always present? This will allow to simplify the frontend code
Volodya> a bit?
I actually did this already just to simplify the code :)
Volodya> For non-dynamic varobjs, it should be non-zero in var-create
Volodya> response if there are children.
For non-dynamic ones, numchild is correct and has_more=0 always.
This made the most sense to me. But, we can change it if you want.
Volodya> 2. Do you think it would be OK to add a special field to
Volodya> indicate that varobj is dynamic? For example, if I expand a
Volodya> regular varobj, I probably want to fetch every field, while for
Volodya> dynamic, I want to fetch just 10.
It would be fine by me. Just let me know what you want it to be called
and I will implement it tomorrow.
Tom